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re: What's the craziest thing you saw or heard about during Katrina?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:29 pm to shawnlsu
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:29 pm to shawnlsu
quote:so you saw some shite and the only thing you are going to say is "otherworldly"?
I did the camera system and network cabling at the makeshift morgue site in Carville as they were bringing refrigerator truck loads of bodies in. The autopsy room was otherworldly.
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Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:29 pm to ColdHodor
Some baw in one of the other many Katrina threads said he had to shoot someone for gas. Doubt it actually happened though. And the Chris Kyle thing was real, my sister’s husband’s second cousin’s friend’s uncle’s drinking buddy said he worked in the army and that it was true.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:30 pm to elprez00
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A very good friend was a foreman for a cleanup company doing work at the Convention Center. They were cleaning one of the kitchens and pulled out a whole pig that had been sealed in the fridge for a few months. It disintegrated when they tried to lift it to throw it away. His description of what it looked like and smelled like was disturbing.
We stayed at the convention center for a night on a cot before we went setting up a FOB in New Orleans East. There was a snack room with glass windows and the whole thing was sealed up. The entire room looked like a blood/shite bomb went off in it. The vending machines were completed destroyed and the amount of biohazardous materials smeared from floor to ceiling was absolutely horrifying. I don’t want to know what went on in that room.
The other was one day I got a radio call from one of my squads that they found a body. Backstory: my Infantry company went house to house, doing very deliberate searches, since the previous ones were super hasty. Well, I arrive to check it out and went into a backyard and found a skeleton in a yellow rain suit, face down under some brush. The guy tried to ride out the storm on his boat at Lakefront marina (adjacent to Lakefront Airport and the Casino). We found him a mile inland in someone’s backyard. The bright spot of the whole thing is that it at least gave his family some closure.
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Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:39 pm to ColdHodor
basically the first 4 floors of every downtown hotel that didn't have armed security was cleaned out of everything.
TVs, liquor from the bars, mattresses, etc.
TVs, liquor from the bars, mattresses, etc.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:40 pm to Booyow
Good ole Lootie
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:41 pm to fallguy_1978
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It was taking me 2 hrs to drive 7 miles to work some days. Grocery stores didn't have hardly anything on the shelves. Had to wait in line for an hour to get gas.
This and you could feel the tension in the air. Powder keg waiting to explode
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:42 pm to ColdHodor
A friend owns an aerial firefighting service based out of Montana using fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. His company and others from throughout the US were brought in to help with the cleanup efforts and he brought his four Huey helicopters. He said initially they were taking fire from the ground, presumably from looters, and had to be escorted in by military choppers. One of their projects was removing coffins from the flooded graveyards and he said some of the caskets were so old they would fall apart during transport, exposing skeletons and some even came loose and hit the ground. He said it was a macabre sight.
This post was edited on 5/13/20 at 11:46 pm
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:45 pm to AZBadgerFan
We had hitched up the boat to go help people and when we saw on the news that people were getting boat jacked and stranded on rooftops we said frick that shite and cut up down trees instead
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:45 pm to MeridianDog
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gang members who bailed out of NO and decided Meridian was a good place to set up shop, so they stayed
See, that's how I know you're lying. Nobody would voluntarily stay in Meridian.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:52 pm to bapple
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the sex shop (I think it’s called Mr Binkey’s)
Planet X
My cousin worked for St. Bernard Sheriff Office then. He said when he was on patrol at night, after the waters had receded, was the most surreal thing. There were no people, and everything was dead. No noises from humans, not birds, not even from insects. Just him in the dark with the sound of the wind.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:55 pm to ColdHodor
First hand experience and account:
Baptist Hospital. Putting patients through a hole in the wall to get them to the parking garage so we could drive them up to the helipad get them the hell out. Floodwaters made using the street entrance impossible. The wildest thought were the NICU babies. We put them with a nurse for their first car ride, first time outside and on a helicopter.
Crazy depressing shite after that. Lots of stories from my days there during and after Katrina. After seeing the best in humanity come together..then saw the worst. It jaded the hell out of me
Spent a night in the convention center. Effing insane.
Literally escaped that hell to west jeff hospital and from there, Baton Rouge then Shreveport.
Baptist Hospital. Putting patients through a hole in the wall to get them to the parking garage so we could drive them up to the helipad get them the hell out. Floodwaters made using the street entrance impossible. The wildest thought were the NICU babies. We put them with a nurse for their first car ride, first time outside and on a helicopter.
Crazy depressing shite after that. Lots of stories from my days there during and after Katrina. After seeing the best in humanity come together..then saw the worst. It jaded the hell out of me
Spent a night in the convention center. Effing insane.
Literally escaped that hell to west jeff hospital and from there, Baton Rouge then Shreveport.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 9:55 pm to Booyow
If I live to be 100 that pic of lootie will still get a chuckle out of me.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:01 pm to Hangover Haven
Sewell sold Suburbans, in addition to Cadillacs. The cops initially tried to lie about the thefts and desertions. Then backed up and said they needed vehicles. One would think a Suburban would be better suited to police work than a Cadillac, but the Cadillacs were all gone.
In an interview on the radio a few months later, the GM or Sales Manager of Sewell just said something like "I can't say what they were used for, but whoever took them preferred the Cadillacs."
In an interview on the radio a few months later, the GM or Sales Manager of Sewell just said something like "I can't say what they were used for, but whoever took them preferred the Cadillacs."
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:04 pm to White Roach
I remember someone called into WWL/United radio and gave a report about gang members who had stolen mail trucks and were coming to loot Baton Rouge. No shite an hour later people were calling in that they saw mail trucks and the looting had started.
The Baton Rouge rumors are even funnier because there zero truth to anyone of them. A lot of the NOLA stories have a sprinkling of truth.
The Baton Rouge rumors are even funnier because there zero truth to anyone of them. A lot of the NOLA stories have a sprinkling of truth.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:05 pm to Hangover Haven
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Supposedly 2 were found at Compass' parents house
Sounds about right. He probably couldn't keep track of how many his subordinates commandeered.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:07 pm to CarRamrod
Me, too. That's why I posted it. Are we supposed to be posting the bullshite stories?
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:17 pm to Stiles
I lived in Lakeview when it hit. The lack of insects immediately afterwards was bizzare.It was as if they knew everything was coated in toxins. Birds too.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:20 pm to ColdHodor
Looty
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:21 pm to CarRamrod
Navy seals or paramilitary men were shooting looters at night, then taking the bodies out on barges to the middle of the Mississippi River to sink the bodies.
Posted on 5/13/20 at 10:23 pm to Dizz
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I remember someone called into WWL/United radio and gave a report about gang members who had stolen mail trucks and were coming to loot Baton Rouge. No shite an hour later people were calling in that they saw mail trucks and the looting had started.
I personally saw a stolen mail truck at a gas station near I-10 in Sorrento. Mail truck stopped at the gas station and about 10 hood rats got out of a small mail truck. I didn’t stick around.
Saw some other crazy stuff on the west bank. Oak wood mall on fire, people looting gas stations/CVS’s/Walgreens. National guard patrolling in their military trucks and cops and national guard with bullet proof vests, AR’s , and machine guns standing watch at different intersections.
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