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

Will check that out.
The conditions in the hospital deteriorated so fast.

You have to realize..no cleaning, no changing sheets, no air conditioning, dank, humid, oppressively hot, some meds ran out, it was insane. Care was limited. The worst environment possible for someone who was a patient.

People were legitimately suffering. It ripped me apart and I had no connection to these people other than shared experience of the storm.

I was there because of a family member. When all hell broke loose, staff seemingly disappeared and they needed volunteers.

Essentially became an orderly, building engineer, you name it.
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We weren't that hard hit from the weather in BR but man the influx of people and traffic was something else.

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.

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This and I had 13 extra people (+ their pets) living in my house

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so you saw some shite and the only thing you are going to say is "otherworldly"?

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How about REALLY disturbing? Everyone there was respectful of the job they had to do, so it was nothing like that. I have just never seen a human body in that state of waterlogged/decomposed and there were 18 wheeler loads of them. Some with nothing more than floodwater/mush inside. The smell, well, there are no words.

ETA: we also had to go into the downtown area to test the fiber for the traffic lights so they could get all that up and running before they officially let people back in. The funk that was inside of those equipment boxes would tell COVID to hold its beer. It was a concentrated mix of everything nasty in NOLA

Never forget all the Hotard and greyhound buses that nobody got on for a free evacuation

They did fill a couple with dogs.

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A friend was a Dr. there and to this day she won't talk about it.. She was called up as a witness for that trial of Dr. Pou.

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Pou never went to trial. The grand jury refused the indictment.

I was 17 when we came back to the city after Katrina. We would always throw parties at abandoned houses in Lakeview.

One specific night the kid hosting the party asked me and buddy if we wanted to see a head, which we said "yes, of course". So he brings us down some alleyways to an abandoned houses' pool house. He told us to open up this bloody ice chest so we did.

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was a fricking head. It was a black dude with dreads head just sitting in the ice chest.

We hightailed it out of there faster than you could imagine and never looked back.

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Sorry I am not a lawyer..is deposition correct

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She Could have been a witness during the grand jury proceedings because some of Pous nurses were called upon.I want trying to call you out or anything just clarifying Pou didn’t actually go to trial because the GJ refused to indict.

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I want trying to call you ou

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No.. I know..I wasn't implying that...Going to trial and just being a witness at the proceedings is a big difference..I would imagine..

I liked the way the gang bangers stole a few hearse from Rhodes Funeral on Washington ave and left them on Claiborne Ave when the water finally got to high to drive. They sat out there probably till November...

Someone stole the forklift from Aqua Marine and used it to pry open the Overhead door at the CVS on Carrolton and Oak. I guess thieves and drug heads get pretty ingenious when it comes to getting what they need...

What was amazing to me was all the different boats that were scattered all over the city. Someone "commandeered" the gondola that was used in City Park. It sat under the Causeway overpass at Airline for about a month. Looking back, I wish I would've taken more pics, especially all the boats... Would've make a nice book...