re: What's the craziest thing you saw or heard about during Katrina?

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She was called up as a witness for that trial of Dr. Pou.

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Dr. You did my mother's thyroidectomy. N
And by all measurable facets did a fine job.

But.... I've met her. Looked into her eyes. And had I known the story, I would have asked for someone else.

I believe she made the right call, but she had the coldest eyes I had ever seen on a woman.

An ordinarily reasonable person told us how the Shreveport Fire Dept. sent a crew down there to help, but gang bangers jacked their fire truck as soon as they got to town.

That certain people were stupid enough to elect a person who brought some batshit crazy bitch to testify before the US congress to “Boom Mistah” the levees exploded.

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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,

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So air tight they would float out the ground, but so fragile and falling apart they couldn't be touched.....

Care to expand on the cards?

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Google "Zach and Addie"

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Jeebus...:O

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Black water was all over the place. I actually worked with some of them when they were providing security at the FEMA centers. Some of the ones I spent time with were down in NOLA during those initial days. They were badass men that I wouldn’t want to be on the wrong side of.

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They worked in BR out of Jimmy Swaggart Ministries complex one Bluebonnet for a while during Katrina. I know that for a fact. I delivered their mail in college.

AMA Journal of Ethics
Illuminating the Art of Medicine


HEALTH LAW
SEP 2010


The Support for Dr. Pou
As evident in the grand jury’s decision not to indict her, Dr. Pou has numerous supporters who consider her decision heroic. Rather than abandon patients, she remained at the hospital with them for 4 days without adequate sleep, food, water, resources, or manpower. According to the American Medical Association’s Code of Medical Ethics, “Individual physicians have an obligation to provide urgent medical care during disasters” that “holds even in the face of greater than usual risks to their own safety, health or life” [9]. It is not speculation to state that Dr. Pou and the Memorial staff put their own health and safety at risk in the atrocious post-Katrina environment and successfully evacuated the majority of Memorial’s patients despite life-threatening conditions. The AMA has commended Dr. Pou for her efforts, and the chair of its board of trustees, Edward L. Langston, MD, stated, “We believe these physicians served as bright lights during New Orleans’ darkest hour” [10].

The pending civil suits will eventually be resolved and the remaining questions about Dr. Pou’s legal liability will be answered. But exactly what happened over those 4 harrowing days at Memorial may never be fully known.

The patients who died could not have been saved. I really think it came down to either dying from painful horrible causes or dying from morphine and versed. I know which I would chose if in that situation.

I grew up in NOLA but I've been gone over 30 years. Good friend lived off N Galvez & stayed for the duration.

His house was fine, perfectly fine and intact 100%. He rode his bike to Kenner to check on his parents' house. When he got back, search & rescue had busted his door down with a hammer and painted one of those coded X things on his porch. He was pissed, that was his only damage from Katrina.

Some other highlights..

He rode his bike everywhere and open carried too, nobody gave a frick if you were armed, it made total sense. He crossed paths with a group of kids ranging from 10 - 13 yrs old by his estimate on their bikes. Kid bringing up the rear had a double barrel shotgun slung across his handlebars pedaling down Esplanade Ave in broad daylight.

My favorite, a bum floating down Carrolton on one if those floting chairs he had commandeered from somebody's pool, a case of hot beer in his lap and a wide grin on his face. He was captain of his vessel,at sea and well provisioned for his voyage.

A self proclaimed coonass pulling a boat with a flat tire pulls into my drive. He says, hey buddy if I can park my boat here you can have whats inside it. I look in the boat and its filled to the brim with mud covered bottles of top shelf liquor. I let him put it in my garage.