re: Watching Katrina 10 years later on PBS

The worst was being refused entrance to your parish for a month after the storm passed so you had no idea if you had a house or a job waiting for you.

Then fighting other people for living supplies like food and water because stores weren't open. And if they were open they closed at 5 oclock so if you did have a job to go to you weren't able to get those supplies because you couldn't get there before the stores ran out of supplies because you weren't able to leave work in time.

Worst was waiting in line for military supplies for 3 to 4 hours in your car only to get up to the front to find out they were running short so you could only being home a couple of days supplies (usually MREs and gallons of water) which meant you had to do it all over a few days later.

Forget about finding gasoline.

Rita was sloppy seconds.

went back with my father in law right after the water receded...he was a retired firefighter so they let us in.the humvees,the rotting smell of food leaking out the fridge,shite was strewn everywhere but the strangest thing was how eerily quiet it was....never forget that.hope it never happens again,but who knows.

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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.

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There is no way you are over 16 years old. I had friends who lost their childhood homes, lost their pets. I have friends who never returned home and now live across the country. It changed our lives forever. Pretty traumatic stuff for them, and that's not even close to the trauma suffered by the thousands of people who actually lost family members during the storm, or the people affected in Mississippi and coastal Louisiana. Grow the frick up.

Crazy how fast our lives changed when the storm took a longer path into the warm gulf waters.

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Rita was sloppy seconds.

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How did they lose a pet? Irresponsible pet owners obv.

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I guess you never saw the video of the little boy who had his dog ripped from his arms by a national guardsman when they boarded a bus out of town, because they didn't allow pets on the buses.

Nobody wants a bus full of dogs and cats.
Prob smelled bad enough as it was.

I remember driving my boys down Highway 23 to Venice in November and seeing the entire carcass of a horse in the top of a large tree. Flesh was all gone, but about half the skin was still intact. Burned into my memory to this day.