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Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:19 am to TigersSEC2010
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Anyone who lived in BR area for the floods in 2016 should’ve been reminded about that. Daddy Government isn’t coming save you
lol...now where is my check from the government to rebuild...
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but it could have been much worse
RIP Chris Kyle
This post was edited on 7/30/18 at 8:20 am
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:22 am to TigersSEC2010
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Daddy Government isn’t coming save you. It’ll be on yourself and your neighbors.
Any plan based off what the Feds are going to do is doomed to fail.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:22 am to tgrbaitn08
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Take away the fact that the levees failed, and we’re not blaming the people who decided to stay.
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and leave if they tell you to leave
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:30 am to TigersSEC2010
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Anyone who lived in BR area for the floods in 2016 should’ve been reminded about that. Daddy Government isn’t coming save you. It’ll be on yourself and your neighbors.
Yep.
And to show examples of how things can catch people by surprise in extreme weather situations, I know of several people that barely made it out of their houses in Livingston Parish and went to other friends/families houses or shelters. Then later that night had to be rescued/evacuated from those places too.
Hell, I had a U-haul ready to go down that Friday morning to help load my parents house up thinking we had until Saturday afternoon to get out. Well the rain just kept falling all Friday night and the flood waters were rolling down their street at 7:30 Friday morning.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:36 am to CptRusty
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and leave if they tell you to leave
It literally wasn’t a possibility for some people to leave. Yes some people chose to stay and some didn’t have a choice. The mandatory order didn’t come until Saturday morning.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:37 am to TigerFanInSouthland
The only thing I remember from that movie was that dumbass who said he had to swim through the flood waters in Kenner and is now on antidepressants.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:41 am to Tiger Prawn
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But its somehow all racist and Bush’s fault
From what I’ve gathered throughout the years, the Feds were slow coming in because of Louisiana’s classically inept leadership.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:43 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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Spike Lee
no fricking thanks.
I saw a trailer for a movie coming out by him about, you guessed it, racism, yesterday.
EVERYTHING IS RACIST. I am so sick of this shite. Trump 2020. Expose them all
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:43 am to Oilfieldbiology
Oddly though, the historically richer areas of Lakeview made out okay. Lake Vista, Lakeshore, Lakewood.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:45 am to lsunurse
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....I usually could get out of it if I had scrubs on.
Maybe you should've taken them off just saying...
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:45 am to lsunurse
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I had moved to Tucson,AZ a month before the storm hit for my first travel RN assignment
How interesting! I had just completed my 3 month travel assignment at Maricopa County Hospital the day before the Levees broke. Are you still in Tucson?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:46 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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From what I’ve gathered throughout the years, the Feds were slow coming in because of Louisiana’s classically inept leadership.
It was a complete failure by the local, state and federal governments. All 3 were to blame
Posted on 7/30/18 at 8:57 am to tgrbaitn08
Can we just stop for a moment and recognize that this thread gave us the opportunity to discuss the Fark Board Legend known as Lootie?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:19 am to TigerFanInSouthland
I’m willing to bet the warning to get out of New Orleans before the storm was not included in the documentary.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:24 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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I was only like 11 when Katrina hit, I remember the news reels of the flooding and the wreckage of NOLA but I didn’t really pay attention to what was being said on the news.
I was 12 living in Metairie near the lake when Hurricane Betsy hit Southeast Louisiana and New Orleans in 1965.
There was no Weather Channel, only this guy, the head weather honcho and local Hurricane Guru Nash Roberts.
And this guy, Victor H. Schiro, Democrat, segregationist, and insurance salesman was Mayor of the Crescent City, famous for saying during the crisis, "Don't believe any false rumors unless you hear them from me."
I am struck by the similarities between Betsy and Katrina even down to the alleged dynamiting of levees to flood the poor to save the rich.
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Hurricane Betsy slammed into New Orleans on the evening of September 9, 1965. 110 mph (180 km/h) winds and power failures were reported in New Orleans.[87] The eye of the storm passed to the southwest of New Orleans on a northwesterly track. The northern and western eyewalls covered Southeast Louisiana and the New Orleans area from about 8 pm until 4 am the next morning. In Thibodaux winds of 130 mph (210 km/h) to 140 mph (230 km/h) were reported.[88] The Baton Rouge weather bureau operated under auxiliary power, without telephone communication.[89] Around 1 am, the worst of the wind and rain was over. Betsy also drove a storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain, just north of New Orleans, and the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet, a deep-water shipping channel to the east and south. Levees for the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet along Florida Avenue in the Lower Ninth Ward and on both sides of the Industrial Canal failed. The flood water reached the eaves of houses in some places and over some one story roofs in the Lower Ninth Ward. Some residents drowned in their attics trying to escape the rising waters. These levee breaches flooded parts of Gentilly, the Upper Ninth Ward, and the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans as well as Arabi and Chalmette in neighboring St. Bernard Parish. President Lyndon Johnson visited the city, promising New Orleans Mayor Vic Schiro federal aid. It was ten days or more before the water level in New Orleans went down enough for people to return to their homes. It took even longer than that to restore their flooded houses to a livable condition. Those who did not have family or friends with dry homes had to sleep in the shelters at night and forage for supplies during the day, while waiting for the federal government to provide emergency relief in the form of trailers. In all, 164,000 homes were flooded at the second landfall. Evidence suggests that cheap construction and poor maintenance of the structures led to the failure of the levees. However, popular rumor persists that they were intentionally breached, possibly as a means of salvaging the more prosperous French Quarter.[90][full citation needed] This is, however, unlikely; even though the French Quarter is one of the geographically highest neighborhoods in the city, during the first eighty years of the 20th century, the French Quarter was, in fact, an unfashionable neighborhood, populated mostly by lower income people, who were not priced out of the market until well into the 1980s. Many of the barges that had been traveling on the Mississippi River were engulfed by the hurricane. One of the barges, MTC-602, contained 602 tons of deadly chlorine gas contained in cylinders. Chlorine gas, which was used frequently as a chemical weapon in World War I, is a powerful irritant that can inflict damage to the eyes, nose, throat and lungs, and (at high concentrations and prolonged exposure) cause death by asphyxiation. It was estimated that the amount of chlorine loaded on the barge was enough to kill 40,000 people. The barge had sunk near Baton Rouge, where an estimated 300,000 people lived. The residents in the harbor area were evacuated until the barge was recovered. President Lyndon B. Johnson ordered the Navy and Army Engineers to find and raise the barge. While it took months to locate and make the appropriate plans for raising the barge, the actual process of raising it took around two hours. The barge was reportedly recovered, without any problems, on November 12, 1965.[91][92]
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:39 am to Mr. Misanthrope
Diane “Mamma D” French knows the truth as she heard the government blow up the levees with Dynamite.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:45 am to MrLSU
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Diane “Mamma D” French knows the truth as she heard the government blow up the levees with Dynamite.
Didn't she also see the man with the "bomb technician" shirt on...?
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:47 am to TigerFanInSouthland
That era is a tale of two hurricanes, Katrina and Rita. Rita hit mostly rural W. LA and people basically said, "frick it, DWI" and slowly began to piece their lives back together. One reporter quoted a Holly Beach native as saying "what else we gonna do?"
And there's Katrina, whose arrival was preceded by some of the worst leadership in the history of natural disasters. The now imprisoned mayor told people to flock to the worst places in town, places that any idiot should have known would lose power. The soundly booted governor proclaimed on TV that NOLA had "dodged a bullet." While the city was filling up with water. Useless, stupid democrat fricks.
But that's okay. Stupid democrat fricks never have to answer for their stupidity, because as their stupid choices were closing in on them, it all became about Bush and racism and "where was the government to fix everything?"
I have friends in the national guard, so don't tell me the natives weren't shooting up the town. One friend told me that more people shot at him in NOLA than they had in Iraq.
And there's Katrina, whose arrival was preceded by some of the worst leadership in the history of natural disasters. The now imprisoned mayor told people to flock to the worst places in town, places that any idiot should have known would lose power. The soundly booted governor proclaimed on TV that NOLA had "dodged a bullet." While the city was filling up with water. Useless, stupid democrat fricks.
But that's okay. Stupid democrat fricks never have to answer for their stupidity, because as their stupid choices were closing in on them, it all became about Bush and racism and "where was the government to fix everything?"
I have friends in the national guard, so don't tell me the natives weren't shooting up the town. One friend told me that more people shot at him in NOLA than they had in Iraq.
Posted on 7/30/18 at 9:49 am to TigerFanInSouthland
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From what I’ve gathered throughout the years, the Feds were slow coming in because of Louisiana’s classically inept leadership.
Blanco was a clueless governor.
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