re: Who here remembers Hurricane Katrina and the Superdome?

I remember it did a little kick-out when it rounded the tip of Florida, and I knew she was coming. Had fished the gulf the two weekends before, and never seen it so calm and flat both times. You could have been out 60 miles in a johnboat. Brutally hot.

Had never heard a tornado before and heard 4 that day. Monster of a storm. Went outside late that evening and there were trees down everywhere. Don't remember how long I was without power, but it was at least a couple weeks, and I'm 80 miles north of the gulf.

I was back in Louisiana and watching on TV and it was the best game ever. I’ll never forget it either.

Hope was renewed, bless dem boys!

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Something no one really talks about regarding Katrina was how it took the city by surprise. It sounds dumb, but it's really true.

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Hindsight is 20/20, but a prominent meteorologist in NO laughed it off at first. A couple days later he was crying while apologizing for getting it wrong. A lot of the same people listing to him wouldn’t have left either way, but by then it didn’t make a difference to the people that didn’t have a vehicle to jump in and get the hell away.

Here’s the deal about why Katrina was so bad. The levees were breached in New Orleans and the flooding is what made her such a bitch of a storm. It still would have been pretty bad because the storm was strong, but not as remembered if it did not flood.

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Hope was renewed, bless dem boys!

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We had moved to Louisiana 2 years earlier, I was 15 when my dad got tickets through Northrop Grumman (Avondale) where he was a new director after 23 years in the military and I guess I'd say I was immature in my understanding of Louisiana culture up until that night. I was overwhelmed, voice shot, borderline in tears PRIOR to kickoff because I could feel the emotion of everyone and I was sold from that moment on.

(I apologize that I'm born in Washington and all my family is up there so the only team I'm family- obligated to root harder for is the Seahawks BUT I cried at my LSU apartment when the saints won the SB, I did not cry when the Seahawks won)

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Interactive satelite map of hurricane Katrina's path:

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I think everybody remembers exactly where they were and what they were doing when saw and heard that old time weather alert sound on TV and the jaw dropping 175 mph update that Sunday afternoon as the updates got worse. By that time the wave action/surge damage was already done with that strength where it was.



Those Noon-5pm updates, the realization, it all happened so fast

Blanco froze.

Reading this thread is dredging up some memories. I'm glad the conversations for the rest of the country have faded. So many times I heard people opining who knew nothing of what was going on. I suppose we are all guilty of this. What a luxury it was for someone to cry about racism when we were dealing with the complete break down of society. Ironically I am looking at my chunk of the pmac floor from its replacement right now. Sometimes I wonder if it is more about the autographs or the events that occurred at that time.

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I remember it did a little kick-out when it rounded the tip of Florida, and I knew she was coming.

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I grew up in the Midwest and got excited for hurricanes because TWC was entertaining. Until Andrew I just thought it was roofs, signs, and street lights that were blown around. We moved to Florida and I got excited about the first Tropical Storm. 2 years later Charley woke me up. 4 days without power, Orlando a freaking mess, and I had a bit of PTSD until we left in 2007. The only two good things to come out of it was my oldest having been conceived in the hours before it hit us and my company getting nervous enough (quarter end) to fly a few of us from Orlando to San Jose 3 out of 4 weeks that September.

I listened to WWL's internet stream for the 2 days before landfall and I remember wondering why people were fighting the evacuation. I know in hindsight they botched the timing even with all lanes of traffic on 10 & 55 going away from the Gulf. The fact that it made it up to Starkville as a Cat 1 is still hard to believe. Bush should have known how bad storms could get from his days as Gov and a bridge who was Gov of Florida. Love what he did for our country but his response to Katrina is as big of a black mark on his legacy as the "Mission Accomplished" photo op.