Katrina: 5 years later

[backroad101]

http://projects.usatoday.com/news/katrina/#/prologue/epigraph/a-perfect-hurricane

Very well put together

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[adsm08]

Wow, it's really been 5 years already? I remember getting ready for the possible effects on the weather all the way up here.

 

[mentalbreakdown00]

Yes we have all but forgotten the katrina disaster, the media makes you pay attention to other things, like Haiti and such

 

[fordman4x492]

katrina kiked our ass!!!!!!!!! but we are all alive and well now,

 

[robertc1024]

Where's Doorgunner on this. One of my best friends lives in Slidell. The swamp got about 4' high in their house. Never seen anything like it. We went to Missippi to get his hunting trailer and there were whole fields of trees snapped off about 10' high. It looked like an A-bomb went off. You want pics, might find 'em.

 

[Hopman]

katrina kiked our ass!!!!!!!!! but we are all alive and well now,

The good news is that you Cajuns are resiliant, rescourceful people.

I drove through New Orleans about 15 months after Katrina and was amazed at how much devistation there was over a year later.

A year before, I was working at Cedar Point in Ohio with a girl from Slydell. She told me that all of her friends and family were okay, but she added with a smirk and a grin that only a cajun could have, "that Mardi Gras won't be the same next year."

 

[doorgunner]

Here I'm am! My aunt lived to blocks from the main break in the levee. She lived there 70 years. She was out of town. Her house was in 15 feet of water, & she lost everything. It really got her depressed since she was 85 yr. old at the time, but she's better now. I was living north of Lake Ponchatrain ...I tried to visit her old neighborhood, but couldn't handle the scene...some of her kids n grandkids went back to the house and found her jewelry, dishes, silverware for her.....70 years worth of pictures were ruined/g-o-n-e.

I still find it hard to believe that people literally lived on their rooftops for up to 5 days.

You guys might not know it, but every Cajun & Redneck with a boat in Louisiana headed to New Orleans to rescue those stranded people but.......

MY GOVERNMENT WOULDN'T ALLOW THEM TO HELP! SEEMS MY GOVERNMENT THOUGHT THE CAJUNS 7 REDNECKS WERE...............................................................................................................................................................................................................................TOO UNORGANIZED TO DO THE RESCUE CORRECTLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


THAT IS all.....where's my Zanax???????????????????????????

 

[Ranger Kip]

My sister went their with her College, she was 1 of 30 chosen out of her entire college to go and help rebuild.

 

[robertc1024]

DoorG - The only thing cool about that was how quiet it was. My friend had a generator, that powered up the fridge (gotta have beer) and a window unit ( I like the swamp and all, but it's a shi##y place to sleep in), but that was the only thing you could hear. I drove into their sub division and there were just mounds of trash lining the road. He was lucky though in some sense, no pine trees through the roof.

 

[Hopman]

DoorG - The only thing cool about that was how quiet it was. He was lucky though in some sense, no pine trees through the roof.

Not to threadjack here, but the kinda sounds like how it was in the New England Ice Storm of '08.

When the generators weren't running in the neighborhood, it was very peaceful. Many of my friends and family got luck with no or very minimal tree damage. My Ranger got hit, but just a dent in the bed and a tree branch stuck in the bumper.

It was 5 days before we got power back. Some places didn't get it back until Christmas.

 

[v-8power]

My brother went down there with the red cross, he give me 2 cds full of pics. I still find it hard to believe all the damage.

 

[Hopman]

My brother went down there with the red cross, he give me 2 cds full of pics. I still find it hard to believe all the damage.

I had a friend who also went down with the Red Cross as well. She's seen plenty of disasters and even she was amazed at the destruction Katrina caused. She must've been PMSing real bad when she hit New Orleans.

 

[doorgunner]

yep it was b-a-d....when caskets are popping outta the water-soaked ground & floating down the street...you know it's bad....

and as for the Saints....the team was serious about helping the city, but the Media made em look like opportunists & jerks.....the new Orleans folks knew the truth though & stuck with the team even though the owner didn't have a clue sometimes!