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re: Who here remembers Hurricane Katrina and the Superdome?
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:57 pm to The Scofflaw
Posted on 6/18/24 at 6:57 pm to The Scofflaw
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Was it as bad as everyone says it was?
Have you ever been in a situation where your US dollar can't save you? Where no matter how much money you have it can't buy you anything, bc there is nothing to buy. Imagine having $500 to buy a gallon of drinking water, but you couldn't even find a single bottle worth? It was a miserable time for all classes of people within about a 100 mile radius from New Orleans.
We arrived to the area within 18 hours of landfall with a complete access pass from a utility provider in the area.
My 3 most impactful memories were
1. Seeing a guy riding his bike with a melted bag of ice over the handle bars and thinking how stupid he was for not having an ice chest. Then within 30 minutes realizing that he had liquid gold hanging over those handle bars and that no matter the class we were all on the same playing field.
2. I was in line to receive MREs and cases of water from one of those giant military trucks and I had one of those weird experiences where I was viewing myself and the situation from an elevated point of view, more like watching than actively present. I couldn't believe I was being handed my food and water from the US Government in the same neighborhood I grew up in, in these conditions, in the USA.
3. I went to go check on some senior citizens that we delivered "meals on wheels" to previously. We pulled onto their street and every single home was gone. Flat out gone. Nothing but slabs with giant clumps of salt grass and mud all over their yard. I remember just thinking, "what is life, where do we go from here?" Everything that seemed routine and permanent to me was completely gone, with little to no trace of it.
This post was edited on 6/20/24 at 7:23 pm
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Posted on 6/18/24 at 7:05 pm to Swagga
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Two completely different sets of circumstances that aren’t remotely comparable.
Well…. There are similar issues…
My ex-BiL was in the Coast Guard and spent days in the back of a Seahawk flying people off rooftops. There were people very appreciative. The vast majority of them, not so much. “Why yawl took so long. Yawl don’t care about us.”
He finally got a weekend off and came to stay with me and my future wife in BR. We stopped to get some drinks and had some, shall we say urban folks, arguing with the bartender. After about five mins of listened to this he spouted off “man you people bring your bullshite with you everywhere you go.”
It got quiet. Real quiet. “OK, Time to leave bro.”
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:10 pm to BeachDude022
quote:how old are you?
Holy shite Kayne. I’ve never seen that
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:25 pm to The Scofflaw
It wasn't like I was there thank the lord
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:27 pm to 87PurpleandGold
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the city flooded largely because the people who were supposed to man the pumps bailed and left. And THAT'S why the levels failed
Wrong. People living in houses along the 17th St Canal had been reporting water bubbling up in their backyards for years, and nothing was done to fix the intrusion under the levees.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:29 pm to TheHarahanian
quote:It took the city of BR two years to replace a storm drain cover on my front yard. I could see easily see the city of NO doing that.
Wrong. People living in houses along the 17th St Canal had been reporting water bubbling up in their backyards for years, and nothing was done to fix the intrusion under the levees.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 8:42 pm to Wing T
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Metairie had no reason to evacuate. Metairie needed Aaron Broussard to not send all the pump operators to Bogalusa, which wound up in the path somewhat. They couldn't get back to turn the damn pumps on.
Eh, 2 things:
1. Levee could easiily have broken on the other side.
2. I went to clean out my mom’s house/refrigerator a few days after and it looked as if a bomb had been detonated. Sure people wouldn’t have been stranded on rooftops, but I imagine being in Metairie was still scary as shite.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:02 pm to The Cool No 9
I lived in Mandeville at the time and fortunately only had a small tree go through a window. I spent the month or so after Katrina around Nashville and remember getting a ton of free stuff from FEMA and a friend's church, including a handful of chainsaws.
A couple of buddies and I took those chainsaws and a bunch of MREs back down after the storm and spent a week camping in my house and cutting up downed trees around the neighborhood. I remember all of the "you loot we shoot" signs spray painted on plywood and it being the only time that I didn't feel safe walking around Mandeville.
I got extra lucky and sold my place in less than a day and for more money than it was worth a couple of months after the storm to some poor Chalmatians that had lost their home in the storm.
A couple of buddies and I took those chainsaws and a bunch of MREs back down after the storm and spent a week camping in my house and cutting up downed trees around the neighborhood. I remember all of the "you loot we shoot" signs spray painted on plywood and it being the only time that I didn't feel safe walking around Mandeville.
I got extra lucky and sold my place in less than a day and for more money than it was worth a couple of months after the storm to some poor Chalmatians that had lost their home in the storm.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:05 pm to TJG210
quote:it was - my mom and grandma slept with the windows open bc the power was out and people were walking up and down in the middle of the night looking through the window and checking to see if the door was locked
I imagine being in Metairie was still scary as shite.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:06 pm to southside
Thank you for going to check on the elders. Unless one was here or returned, they won’t understand the desolation and depression that came with it. Even unaffected Metairie. It stank, was gloomy, waiting in like for supplies, water, MREs if needed. It was surreal for while. I knew 2 in Nola…lakeview and East, and a family off airline in that subdivision that flooded. Lost it all. All their memories and photos, and home, gone. My chaplain friend. Stuck at charity hospital for several days, if not a week, in that horror. We were blessed. We hopped over to BR and kept working in offices there and enrolled our kids in school until we could get back to normal. Kids are grown now. Happens again, wont be back.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:09 pm to BeachDude022
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Holy shite Kayne. I’ve never seen that Mike Myers was prob thinking who the hell teamed me with this psycho frick stick?
I saw it live.
“George Bush hates black people” Mike Myers is shocked. Cut to Chris Tucker, speechless. Chris Freakin Tucker.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 9:13 pm to dgnx6
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Back then black lives didn’t matter and George Bush flooded those poor people.
I have not read the entire thread but I assume George Bush's Hurricane Machine has been cited.
Mash for hurricane machine
This post was edited on 6/18/24 at 9:15 pm
Posted on 6/18/24 at 10:15 pm to Professor Dawghair
I’m was a manager at a Red Cross shelter during Katrina. It took 4 days for the national guard to show up. Never in my life was I so happy to see the military.
Many appreciative people, but many entitled. My life was threatened a few times and I just could not believe how fast society in the United States could break down. You can’t count on the government to save you, they are extremely slow. How you can't mobilize the military within 24 hours anywhere in continental us I will never understand. You even had days to prep.
Many appreciative people, but many entitled. My life was threatened a few times and I just could not believe how fast society in the United States could break down. You can’t count on the government to save you, they are extremely slow. How you can't mobilize the military within 24 hours anywhere in continental us I will never understand. You even had days to prep.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 10:16 pm to Dixie2023
It was a crazy time, I had just gotten married 5 weeks prior. Our house survived with minimal damage, my in laws place in Slidell was completely flooded, my sister in laws rental in Gentilly completely flooded, my mom’s house in Metairie flooded. So for nearly a month everyone stayed with us. My sister in law didn’t leave for 6 months. It wes a fairly stressful start lol
Posted on 6/18/24 at 11:18 pm to RocketPower13
Must have been epic in person. You are a Louisianian to me, no need to apologize!
Posted on 6/18/24 at 11:29 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Katrina could have completely destroyed the entire city had it jogged even further west before landfall.
This, and this.
The western eyewall of the hurricane collapsed right before landfall.
If it jogs left 20 miles there's basically no point rebuilding as you are literally rebuilding a whole city.
Posted on 6/18/24 at 11:32 pm to Trapped in time
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My life was threatened a few times and I just could not believe how fast society in the United States could break down.
Also this. Most people don't realize they are 3 days from total anarchy if the right cards fall into place, but folks who went through Katrina know this. Was by far the largest and scariest takeaway from the whole experience.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 2:03 am to The Scofflaw
Me. I was almost 25
This post was edited on 6/19/24 at 2:04 am
Posted on 6/19/24 at 8:03 am to DownSouthCrawfish
My brother, an ex SEAL sniper, was doing the same from a big oil company building downtown. The cops wouldn't let them take their rifles in so after he was done with the police getting in, we brought him a rifle and pistol.
He freaking despises that city as a result of what he saw there. Can't relax. When my daughter had her wedding there, he refused to drink, (Carrying concealed) and basically looked like a Secret Service guy watching over the place.
He freaking despises that city as a result of what he saw there. Can't relax. When my daughter had her wedding there, he refused to drink, (Carrying concealed) and basically looked like a Secret Service guy watching over the place.
Posted on 6/19/24 at 9:40 am to Dixie2023
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All that choose to not leave should be told they are on their own and nobody coming to help. Isn’t that what Grand Isle and other places did in Ida?
In 2005 for Hurricane Rita, the sheriffs department had deputies going house to house .. when they got to ours they said clearly that if we stayed they couldn’t help us. We were leaving but were just finishing things up. I seem to recall having to sign my name and number with next of kin, even though we were leaving.
We’re about 10 miles I guess from Vermilion Bay. After Katrina we were all leaving.
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