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re: What's the craziest thing you saw or heard about during Katrina?
Posted on 5/14/20 at 2:48 pm to Hangover Haven
Posted on 5/14/20 at 2:48 pm to Hangover Haven
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cops stealing Cadillacs
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True story...
We were securing Harrahs casino and had 4 of them pull up in a black escalade truck. They did not look like Leo and after being taken out at gun point and their identity confirmed we sent them on their way. Truck was full of loot but they claimed it was loot they had taken from looters and they were just out patrolling
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Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:11 pm to Beessnax
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The Danziger Bridge shooting was absolutely horrifying. It revealed how corrupt the NOPD continued to be at the time.
Wiki article
Wow. Never heard of that before. What the frick compelled them to do that?
This post was edited on 5/14/20 at 3:12 pm
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:19 pm to CAD703X
You are going to be disappointed in a lot of the "stories" because they really aren't anything like the BS I've heard over the years. Prior to the storm making landfall we had an orderly system in place. We had searched every last person entering and had barrels and barrels of contraband from drugs, booze, weapons, etc that we seized. After the storm hit, we had people coming in from every possible entrance with God knows what in their possession.
Early on they had a guy commit suicide by jumping off the top section of seats down onto the lower level. We had a bunch of fights, a lot of petty theft, some organized gangbangers roaming around making trouble. No confirmed rapes and no murders.
A few days in we had a National Guardsman shot and the suspect supposedly barricaded in the Tulane locker room with the soldier's weapon. We went in, pitch black, water to our knees and took him into custody with no issue. Later when I interviewed the soldier's buddy, we learned that his buddy had an accidental discharge when the guy spooked them and he squeezed off a round through his buddies leg.
We collected a few bodies that the trucks on the street would find floating and we would put them in the cooler in the dome.
There were a lot of fights and unruly people as time went on, but nothing too major. Eventually we evacuated the Convention Center, which not a designated shelter and was a hell hole of 12,000 people. It was bad and there were several bodies we came across who died by questionable means.
Like I said, forget all the BS stories you may have heard. It was tense as hell the whole time, and people were miserable but there wasn't wholesale raping and killing going on. Oh, and I saw a total of about 5 cops the entire time I was in the dome. Half of those were NOPD brass there for daily briefings with the Guard. It was all military on the ground.
Early on they had a guy commit suicide by jumping off the top section of seats down onto the lower level. We had a bunch of fights, a lot of petty theft, some organized gangbangers roaming around making trouble. No confirmed rapes and no murders.
A few days in we had a National Guardsman shot and the suspect supposedly barricaded in the Tulane locker room with the soldier's weapon. We went in, pitch black, water to our knees and took him into custody with no issue. Later when I interviewed the soldier's buddy, we learned that his buddy had an accidental discharge when the guy spooked them and he squeezed off a round through his buddies leg.
We collected a few bodies that the trucks on the street would find floating and we would put them in the cooler in the dome.
There were a lot of fights and unruly people as time went on, but nothing too major. Eventually we evacuated the Convention Center, which not a designated shelter and was a hell hole of 12,000 people. It was bad and there were several bodies we came across who died by questionable means.
Like I said, forget all the BS stories you may have heard. It was tense as hell the whole time, and people were miserable but there wasn't wholesale raping and killing going on. Oh, and I saw a total of about 5 cops the entire time I was in the dome. Half of those were NOPD brass there for daily briefings with the Guard. It was all military on the ground.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:27 pm to tgrbaitn08
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That’s the most fricked up story that’s pretty much ever happened in New Orleans.
New Orleans has a lot of "history". That Zach and Addie story just scratches the surface.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:29 pm to MeridianDog
We had so many MRE boxes that we made a latrine out of them on top of the parking garage. Floor and walls made completely out of MRE boxes.
If you are ever an emergency operations commander, finding port-o-lets should be very high on the list.
Oprah left a box of donuts on my chest while I was sleeping on a cot in the parking garage.
If you are ever an emergency operations commander, finding port-o-lets should be very high on the list.
Oprah left a box of donuts on my chest while I was sleeping on a cot in the parking garage.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:32 pm to Buck Wylde
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Early on they had a guy commit suicide by jumping off the top section of seats down onto the lower level.
Thought that was a homeless guy the crowd found sexually assaulting a kid?
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:36 pm to southside
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New Orleans has a lot of "history". That Zach and Addie story just scratches the surface.
We're listening...share your knowledge.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 3:54 pm to shawnlsu
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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.
This is absolutely true. A good many big refrigerated tractor-trailers full of bodies. Maybe 20 to 25 or so. Seemed way more than the 1800 or so dead being claimed. Off limits in a separate gated fenced lot. The entire morgue complex and living quarters secured by well armed Blackwater. They claimed some of the refrigerated corpses had been bad boys and had been Falljuah three-stepped thus the relatively high level of security for an overflow morgue.
This post was edited on 5/14/20 at 3:56 pm
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:03 pm to IIxxBREADxxII
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:05 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Wow. Never heard of that before. What the frick compelled them to do that?
I really don't know. I read somewhere that a police officer escorting a food truck reported coming under fire so maybe these guys thought that this family had something to do with it? It's very sad because these people had no weapons. You can't really make it about race because black cops were involved. Maybe they were overworked and mentally exhausted?
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:22 pm to Beessnax
I have a family member that was in NOPD during Katrina. He worked for 3 weeks straight rescuing people and trying to survive just like everyone else. He has told me multiple times that he slept maybe 3 hours a night and they were absolutely exhausted. Obviously there were things that NOPD did in these times that were not right but the hate on them in this thread is pretty sad considering 99% of them worked their arse off in this time to save lives and protect the city. He has said multiple times that he did not think he was gonna make it out alive and that it was hell on Earth. He still nightmares and somewhat of a PTSD from the situation today.
Also the federal government was declining people who wanted to help with the search and rescue because they were “not approved rescue boats”. That was one of the more eye opening things that I have heard him talk about from Katrina on how ridiculous FEMA and the Federal government is.
It was an absolute shitty situation for everyone.
Also the federal government was declining people who wanted to help with the search and rescue because they were “not approved rescue boats”. That was one of the more eye opening things that I have heard him talk about from Katrina on how ridiculous FEMA and the Federal government is.
It was an absolute shitty situation for everyone.
Posted on 5/14/20 at 4:30 pm to Beessnax
What I saw after down in Da parish that was unreal was marsh grass hanging up in the power lines 30'+ up in the air. It had the lines completely covered from pole to pole. Goes to show how high the water got down below the level system.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 8:53 am to White Roach
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Care to expand on the cards?
There's a small pocket in a coffin which contains a sealed bag. Identifies the body.
I never knew that was in there until a buddy of mine hut a coffin in his boat. He brought it all the way to the funeral home in...greensburg or amite and the guy opened it and told him whom he had found.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 3:41 pm to RougeDawg
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Thought that was a homeless guy the crowd found sexually assaulting a kid?
No, nothing indicated that was the case. We did throw a few pervs out in the middle of the storm that were getting a little "handsy" with people.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:00 pm to ColdHodor
OP story is likely true.
A relative of mine, who's not prone to hyperbole or storytelling, works on the river and was staying on a vessel on the river that was also housing military personnel who were on patrols in the city. They would tell stories of how they would just walk into buildings, call out once and if they didn't get a response within a few seconds, just start unloading in the building on full auto. You know, for shitz and giggles.
A relative of mine, who's not prone to hyperbole or storytelling, works on the river and was staying on a vessel on the river that was also housing military personnel who were on patrols in the city. They would tell stories of how they would just walk into buildings, call out once and if they didn't get a response within a few seconds, just start unloading in the building on full auto. You know, for shitz and giggles.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:19 pm to nola000
Read the messages on NOLA.com. True or not, they were quite eye opening. Right before Katrina hit, there was a NOLA police car at the Hilton on County Line Road on Jackson. It stayed there for at least 9 days.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:21 pm to Stiles
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t, 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.
I can vouch for this. And not just right after the waters receded. I was their months after and it was still the same. New Orleans is a subtropical climate bordering on tropical. You constantly hear birds and insects all hours of the day.
It was dead silent.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:29 pm to blueboxer1119
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that crazy a-hole that was in the newspaper, then barbequed his girlfriend and walked off a roof.
Just listened to a podcast about that 2 nights ago
I would've banged Addie Hall, but I would NOT have strangled, dismembered, and/or cooked her body
(Unless of course the evil spirits from the Voodoo Temple below her apartment compelled me to do so)
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:34 pm to Havoc
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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
I don't know if I believe that the levees were blown to save the French quarter but it does make sense and there's also precedent for it because it's happened once before down in Chalmette. Of course that flooded mostly farmland but still. As corrupt as this state and city is, it wouldn't surprise me.
I can tell you this. When Katrina hit I was living exactly one block from the eastside London Avenue Canal breach and I talked to many people who rode it out including my mother-in-law. All of them said they heard a loud boom and soon after their houses were filling up with water. Granted, that could have been the sound of the earthen levee slamming against the houses or the houses themselves slamming into other houses but there was only one house that was moved at that breach. There were several houses moved off their pilings at the 17th Street Canal breach.
Posted on 5/15/20 at 4:35 pm to Hangover Haven
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Looking back, I wish I would've taken more pics, especially all the boats... Would've make a nice book...
Or TulaneLSU could do a top ten abandoned boats of Katrina list.
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