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re: Katrina 18th Anniversary Today
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:24 am to Hangover Haven
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:24 am to Hangover Haven
quote:
If the levees hadn’t failed, New Orleans would basically turned out how it was affected by Ida
Ida didn’t blow the roof off the superdome and blow almost blow the Hyatt down
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Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:27 am to liz18lsu
quote:just to go to tornados or wild fires.
worked with several people who called it quits and left for places that don't have hurricanes.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:28 am to tgrbaitn08
quote:because it was a new roof duh.....
Ida didn’t blow the roof off the superdome
quote:almost huh?
almost blow the Hyatt down
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:30 am to TigerGman
quote:yeah I don’t know about that - it was pretty shitty before with the serial killers, gays killing young boys, and Earl k long hospital.
Worse thing to happen to Baton Rouge...
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:31 am to tgrbaitn08
We evacuated to my Dads in Houston. Went back 2 days later and remember as we were leaving to go back my dad gave me a .22 and a Taurus Judge and said if you shot don’t stop until your empty
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:32 am to Athis
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I lost a lot, my dad died the week before and I lost every thing in my house a few days later. The most uncertain time in my life.
Lost my mom 3 weeks before Ida, which did the same to my house. Tough to bounce back from
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:32 am to TigerGman
quote:
Worse thing to happen to Baton Rouge...
Worst thing to happen to states bordering LA.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:32 am to liz18lsu
quote:you spelled 'Holly Beach' wrong
If I am not mistaken, Rita hit BR exactly one month later.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:32 am to The Torch
quote:let’s not forget that a large number of police had resigned prior to the summer and that a lot of the crime was committed against the Katrina evacuees
was in Houston when all the Katrinicans showed up, our crime rate went up something like 1 million %
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:33 am to Chingon Ag
quote:
Worst thing to happen to states bordering LA.
yep
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:35 am to soccerfüt
What's the best documentary on the storm?
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:39 am to soccerfüt
I was in Gulfport, Ms working and my home was in Pass Christian. It was a rough time for us
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:44 am to tgrbaitn08
To be fair to Kanye, GWB didn't care about anyone outside the beltway
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:45 am to 777Tiger
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we moved TX right after Katrina, shortly after there were billboards put up in our area that said something to effect of "Texas is glad to have helped you in your time of need, Louisiana wants you back now!
Katrina had all the FEMA guys completely traumatized by the time they reached LC after Rita. I had 4 rental properties south of LC that Rita scoured the shingles off of. Within a week of the storm we were reroofing them. When FEMA rolled up with the blue tarps we had 2 of the 4 finished. Those guys were just relieved to see people doing for themselves and to be out of the “soup bowl” as the called it.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:50 am to redstick13
quote:
When FEMA rolled up with the blue tarps we had 2 of the 4 finished. Those guys were just relieved to see people doing for themselves
you'd have been arrested in FL, unless you are a licensed roofing contractor, that's they way they operate after a storm down there, they run around checking the people working to clean up/rebuild to see if everyone has the proper license/permits
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:52 am to 777Tiger
quote:
you'd have been arrested in FL, unless you are a licensed roofing contractor, that's they way they operate after a storm down there, they run around checking the people working to clean up/rebuild to see if everyone has the proper license/permits
shite, looking at my yard at 9 am the day after Ida, you couldn't even tell we had gone through an almost Cat 5 that hung out over us for 6 hours. I could've had contractors working by then. frick those who won't do for themselves
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:57 am to soccerfüt
Spent the first few days after landfall with family around BR.
Remember sitting with some folks watching the updates and based on what I was seeing on internet sites and how little we were impacted where I was, like many, I assumed it wasn't bad.
A cousin said her father in law was somewhere along the coast handling emergency response and he had told them it was very bad and they were requesting body bags. I told them that was nuts. Someone is making up rumors.
Boy was I wrong.
The stuff that Nola on east towards Mobil had to deal with should not be wished on your worst enemy. People from other parts of the country don't realize how many people live so close to family and when your aunt/uncle/cousins/parents, etc houses are all ruined, it changes so much how things get handled with having places to stay and having help to fix houses.
Add in the fact that electricity was out for months way inland for 75 miles wide and it was just pure hell for all involved. Water sitting in Nola for three weeks, then no supplies in stock for several hundred miles, not hearing from insurance for months, etc. It's just not like anything most had ever seen.
Remember sitting with some folks watching the updates and based on what I was seeing on internet sites and how little we were impacted where I was, like many, I assumed it wasn't bad.
A cousin said her father in law was somewhere along the coast handling emergency response and he had told them it was very bad and they were requesting body bags. I told them that was nuts. Someone is making up rumors.
Boy was I wrong.
The stuff that Nola on east towards Mobil had to deal with should not be wished on your worst enemy. People from other parts of the country don't realize how many people live so close to family and when your aunt/uncle/cousins/parents, etc houses are all ruined, it changes so much how things get handled with having places to stay and having help to fix houses.
Add in the fact that electricity was out for months way inland for 75 miles wide and it was just pure hell for all involved. Water sitting in Nola for three weeks, then no supplies in stock for several hundred miles, not hearing from insurance for months, etc. It's just not like anything most had ever seen.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 8:58 am to soccerfüt
Katrina Graphics Archive
Rita Graphics Archive
2005 Storm Archives
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Rita Graphics Archive
2005 Storm Archives
When you select a storm name there is Archive link at the center. Pick it to see the graphic archive.
Posted on 8/29/23 at 9:04 am to 777Tiger
quote:go back to what? that was the problem - there wasn’t anything to go back to
Louisiana wants you back now!
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