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re: Watching Katrina 10 years later on PBS
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:11 pm to Walt OReilly
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:11 pm to Walt OReilly
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People forget just how bad Mississippi got it
When i drove to tuscaloosa for the lsu game in 2005, i was floored by the damage all the way to west alabama
Floored.
My plans fell through last.minute so i thought id just grab a hotel somewhere close. Yeah that was the meridian, some dump hotel, near last room in the city.
I ended up being next to several families bbq ing in the hotel. I was like holy crap, till i talked to them and found out they brought what was left of their home with them. A brick. One single brick.
Best, and worst, part of that trip
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Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:11 pm to Slinky
Are the words and mouths off for anyone else?
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:13 pm to Makinbacon
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This post was edited on 1/10/21 at 11:00 pm
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:16 pm to Makinbacon
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hey must wear a shirt or name tag that identifies themselves
They aren't hard to identify.
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:16 pm to GonePecan
NPR has been running some good stories on Katrina. They just did one on Bayou la Batre and another on the home buyouts in Mississippi.
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:26 pm to glassman
If you were there, you get it. If not, you can't.
I wish I didn't get it.
Night all.
I wish I didn't get it.
Night all.
Posted on 8/23/15 at 9:48 pm to GonePecan
The show is pretty good. I am somewhat let down that the show in the last 15 minutes is so closely tied to the arts....but I get it.
I would have liked a setup with Brinkley and Carville hosting the show....but that is just me.
It is amazing how many lives were disrupted / ruined / put on hold due to that storm.
I would have liked a setup with Brinkley and Carville hosting the show....but that is just me.
It is amazing how many lives were disrupted / ruined / put on hold due to that storm.
Posted on 8/23/15 at 10:56 pm to GonePecan
The Robin Roberts ABC Special was pretty good. Man, to me it feels like it's been more than 10 years, seems so long ago, I don't know. Can anyonee dig up the Official Katrina Tracking/Info thread(s) from 05?
This post was edited on 8/23/15 at 10:58 pm
Posted on 8/23/15 at 11:16 pm to LaBR4
Anyone have a link to the Robin Roberts story?
Posted on 8/23/15 at 11:19 pm to ellishughtiger
Posted on 8/24/15 at 5:37 am to jeff5891
It definitely changed up the Baton Rouge dynamic. I forget about that. I was a sophomore and we never even lost electricity at our apartment. We stayed at a friends house and let another friend from NOLA's family stay at our place for a little while.
I just remember my parents thinking of buying a condo before the storm, then after it was insane how quickly the price jumped. Traffic was like the first week of school all the time.
Obviously not that big a deal for myself and BR compared, but I forgot how that basically changedy college experience for the next several years and it never really went back.
I just remember my parents thinking of buying a condo before the storm, then after it was insane how quickly the price jumped. Traffic was like the first week of school all the time.
Obviously not that big a deal for myself and BR compared, but I forgot how that basically changedy college experience for the next several years and it never really went back.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 6:09 am to KG6
Baton Rouge grew from 250k to 1 million people literally overnight. That's a whole story of itself.
In the line of work I was in at the time (communications cabling), we had enough work to last us for 3 years solid of having the books filled. Spent a lot of time in New Orleans after the storm and it was eerily like a ghost town, a shell of its former self. It's why I always get an instant smile on my face when I go to New Orleans now and see it back up and "running". There were times during the rebuild when I wondered if it would ever get that way again.
In the line of work I was in at the time (communications cabling), we had enough work to last us for 3 years solid of having the books filled. Spent a lot of time in New Orleans after the storm and it was eerily like a ghost town, a shell of its former self. It's why I always get an instant smile on my face when I go to New Orleans now and see it back up and "running". There were times during the rebuild when I wondered if it would ever get that way again.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 6:17 am to GonePecan
Don't want to sound like an a-hole but here I go....
My guess is that 80-90% of the people on this board evacuated to 100% safety and anything thy lost was replaced by insurance. Or they were somewhere outside the city where the storm did not flood whole neighborhoods. Obviously having to move to a new place for a few months while your city is underwater is not ideal, but it's not the life changing horrific near death experience that most NO people try and make it out to be either.
My guess is that 80-90% of the people on this board evacuated to 100% safety and anything thy lost was replaced by insurance. Or they were somewhere outside the city where the storm did not flood whole neighborhoods. Obviously having to move to a new place for a few months while your city is underwater is not ideal, but it's not the life changing horrific near death experience that most NO people try and make it out to be either.
This post was edited on 8/24/15 at 6:18 am
Posted on 8/24/15 at 6:36 am to GonePecan
I know, I'm a softy, but....I thought RR did a great job and at times I found myself getting a bit misty.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 6:43 am to cuyahoga tiger
Oh yeah same here. Especially the lady who lost her husband and described the final look he gave her.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:02 am to REG861
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Blame that on the media, not the people of New Orleans.
Your reading comprehension is bad, and you should feel bad.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:03 am to Fusaichi Pegasus
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Katrina was a govt purge.
Well they did a shitty job of it, then.
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:13 am to Tiger1242
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Don't want to sound like an a-hole but here I go.... My guess is that 80-90% of the people on this board evacuated to 100% safety and anything thy lost was replaced by insurance. Or they were somewhere outside the city where the storm did not flood whole neighborhoods. Obviously having to move to a new place for a few months while your city is underwater is not ideal, but it's not the life changing horrific near death experience that most NO people try and make it out to be either.
You're a fricking idiot who has no idea what he's talking about.
You have no idea what it's like to evacuate with three days worth of clothes...and spend the next couple of MONTHS with various family members around the country. You have no idea what it's like to come back and be the only person living on your block for the first three months. And then watch the other neighbors trickle in and break down in tears in front of their houses; or have to wait for an hour and a half in the drive through line at Mc Donald's in Elmwood because you don't know where else to get breakfast before you spend your day cleansing your house of childhood memories; or hearing the news that a guy your mother worked with had ventured out for help right after the storm...and never made it back; or lose your mind (literally) when you have to look at waterlines on every building everywhere you go; or fight insurance companies for years; or lose friends because they had to move to other cities because their places of employment just fricking vanished in one day; or watch your mother have to take anti-depressants for three years after the storm.
It was fricking awful.
This post was edited on 8/24/15 at 7:17 am
Posted on 8/24/15 at 7:17 am to Fontainebleau Dr.
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It was fricking awful.
The spike in divorces and suicides was awful. No matter what the event did change people and the city forever.
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