20th Anniversary: Hurricane Katrina...

[posty 2,761]

August 29 is when it hit New Orleans, after hitting Florida on August 25...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

[SaintsInDome2006 442]

15 minutes ago, posty said:

August 29 is when it hit New Orleans, after hitting Florida on August 25...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina

God Bless New Orleans, Mississippi Gulf Coast & Florida. That b!1ch consumed the whole of the Gulf of Mexico. Horrible, horrible time. It’s an indescribable feeling to know you might have lost everything & everything you were ever going to have.

[edjr 6,681]

Is it true a lot of the poor parts have still not been rebuilt?

[cyclone24 1,932]

Did anybody read five days at memorial? Book about decisions made at hospitals during Katrina? Thought about picking it up for the anniversary

[SaintsInDome2006 442]

7 minutes ago, edjr said:

Is it true a lot of the poor parts have still not been rebuilt?

It’s not just poor parts, but yes. Population is smaller than it was, & different.

[edjr 6,681]

3 minutes ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

It’s not just poor parts, but yes. Population is smaller than it was, & different.

Cheap water front opportunities? 

[Alias Detective 1,428]

Someone I know just went to NO.  2 weeks ago.  They said places are still not cleaned up properly 20 years later.  Just let the shlthole flood already.

[edjr 6,681]

3 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

Someone I know just went to NO.  2 weeks ago.  They said places are still not cleaned up properly 20 years later.  Just let the shlthole flood already.

I think that already happened 20 years ago?

[Alias Detective 1,428]

16 minutes ago, edjr said:

I think that already happened 20 years ago?

Yeah, and they fixed the flooding problems by rebuilding the levee and dyke systems.  I say punch holes in those systems and bye bye shlthole.

[edjr 6,681]

4 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

Yeah, and they fixed the flooding problems by rebuilding the levee and dyke systems.  I say punch holes in those systems and bye bye shlthole.

leave the WNBA out of this

[SaintsInDome2006 442]

12 hours ago, edjr said:

Cheap water front opportunities? 

Louisiana has one beach, & it’s been rolled back behind something called a giant “burrito” because of erosion.

[SaintsInDome2006 442]

12 hours ago, Alias Detective said:

Someone I know just went to NO.  2 weeks ago.  They said places are still not cleaned up properly 20 years later.  Just let …flood already.

It wasn’t clean before the Storm.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

17 hours ago, edjr said:

Is it true a lot of the poor parts have still not been rebuilt?

 No. Most of Orleans Parish (New Orleans) has been rebuilt and is doing well for the most part, minus politicians. Ten years after I was proud of our rebuilding and its progress. Twice as good today and a lot of our citizens and communities are better than we were before she changed everyone’s lives and generations to come. If St.Bernard Parish could be rebuilt, and th 9th Ward, we did well.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

17 hours ago, cyclone24 said:

Did anybody read five days at memorial? Book about decisions made at hospitals during Katrina? Thought about picking it up for the anniversary

 Good read. Very fascinating how well they did considering it was a first that cartographic. My lady was a pharmacist that spent almost three weeks at Memorial Hospital. They are hero’s is on another level. Good read. Also, if you can, watch Mysteries Of The Abandoned episode about Charity Hospital or read books about it. Pure will, courage, and commitment under incredible pressure, conditions, and circumstances beyond belief. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

4 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Louisiana has one beach, & it’s been rolled back behind something called a giant “burrito” because of erosion.

Have you read Rising Tide:The great flood of 1927? It was inevitable the levees would break. The Katrina disaster was man made. One of the greatest moments in American history was the Louisiana Purchase. We bought the Mississippi River for pennies on the dollar per acre. Huge mistake by France. Just as it was a huge mistake to sell Alaska. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

17 hours ago, Alias Detective said:

Someone I know just went to NO.  2 weeks ago.  They said places are still not cleaned up properly 20 years later.  Just let the shlthole flood already.

 

 

17 hours ago, Alias Detective said:

Yeah, and they fixed the flooding problems by rebuilding the levee and dyke systems.  I say punch holes in those systems and bye bye shlthole.

 OK. First, you a are FAWKING IGNORANT MORON who doesn’t know what you are talking about. I would shut up about things you do not know. But I’ll use you as my learning tool fo4 othe4s. Please continue sir.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

5 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Louisiana has one beach, & it’s been rolled back behind something called a giant “burrito” because of erosion.

 The Army Corpse Of Enineers did a great mistake on how they built the canals levee systems. The river and lakes did their job for the most part. Im still not sure our pumping stations still. We shall see. I’ll never leave.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

18 hours ago, cyclone24 said:

Did anybody read five days at memorial? Book about decisions made at hospitals during Katrina? Thought about picking it up for the anniversary

 Also, a great read, “One Dead In Attic” by Chris Rose who is and award winning journalist for the Times Picayune paper. Must read. 
 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

 On this day twenty years ago, I finished buying my beer and food along with extra supplies. Wasn’t easy, but, i did it. Talked to wifey and fought about me staying and sending them off to Houston on Sunday morning. This day was a Saturday. Tired of fighting with family, I said Fawk It” and went and played the last round ever at my beloved City Park West. Three friends were there so we played along with two other foursomes. We all walked back then so the manager told us to be gone bi 5:30. There were no pin flags, beer girl, and it was very quiet and surreal. Settled my bets and went home to frantic wemens, and started drinking. Nothing out of the norm.

 I finished battening down the hatches and enjoying the evening to screams of “we’re all gonna DIE!!!” It was completely different come tomorrow. 

 

[SaintsInDome2006 442]

18 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

Have you read Rising Tide:The great flood of 1927? It was inevitable the levees would break. The Katrina disaster was man made. One of the greatest moments in American history was the Louisiana Purchase. We bought the Mississippi River for pennies on the dollar per acre. Huge mistake by France. Just as it was a huge mistake to sell Alaska. 

Yep I read it, it’s on my shelf. And I read several other books about local topography. Tried to figure it all out, understand why it happened.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

2 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Yep I read it, it’s on my shelf. And I read several other books about local topography. Tried to figure it all out, understand why it happened.

 You obviously love our city. I was an independent insurance adjuster here for over thirty years. I knew the Orleans levee canals were the week spots, along with the pumps and stations along with politicians.

 I was digging through a bunch of old boxes and found one from the ACOE annual report for the levee systems in south eastern Louisiana the same year prior to when,Betsy and Chamille hit. I was learning as much asi could about how it happened and why. I read the same ACOCE annual report up until Katrina. What I found was very clear at all levels of government, they lied about what they were doing for decades. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

 Were you at the reopening of the Dome that year? 

[Sandy Loam 237]

6 hours ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 On this day twenty years ago, I finished buying my beer and food along with extra supplies. Wasn’t easy, but, i did it. Talked to wifey and fought about me staying and sending them off to Houston on Sunday morning. This day was a Saturday. Tired of fighting with family, I said Fawk It” and went and played the last round ever at my beloved City Park West. Three friends were there so we played along with two other foursomes. We all walked back then so the manager told us to be gone bi 5:30. There were no pin flags, beer girl, and it was very quiet and surreal. Settled my bets and went home to frantic wemens, and started drinking. Nothing out of the norm.

 I finished battening down the hatches and enjoying the evening to screams of “we’re all gonna DIE!!!” It was completely different come tomorrow. 

 

So what happened next?

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

3 minutes ago, Sandy Loam said:

So what happened next?

 

 I, nor did anyone in the city slept this night. Men were calling each other, as were the wemens as they cleaned their relatives home with nervous energy and extreme nervousness. Me: Why are all of y’all cleaning your house if it’s all going to be destroyed in an instant?  Them: Shut up Jack .

 I wrote emails to others who were staying also. Friends and businesses contacts including first responders I know.I was all set and ready for the show. Then realized I forgot the ice.So I went to my FIL volunteer fire station and loaded up.

That was strange, but not unexpected living here my whole life. I walked my hundred+ lbs Dalmation Domino for two hours with no phone and a six pack of Coors light tall boys up to the Mississippi River, and relaxed. I remember it was right before midnight, and all through the city, there wasn’t a chubber in sight. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

It’s two minutes to midnight and my favorite DJ at the Classic rock station come on and says not leaving till the power goes out or he runs of JD. He played stormsongs till. Now@!,@,

Edited yesterday at 04:58 AM by BunnysBastatrds
Ppp

[MLCKAA 585]

On 8/26/2025 at 10:03 AM, Alias Detective said:

Someone I know just went to NO.  2 weeks ago.  They said places are still not cleaned up properly 20 years later.  Just let the shlthole flood already.

May have told this already.

 Went down there with a volunteer group 18 months after the storm.  Our job was gutting houses.  We were in the lower 9th and it basically still looked like it had just happened 2 weeks before.  The lack of progress in a year and a half was shocking.  Even roads that were still blocked with debris.

[Alias Detective 1,428]

8 hours ago, SaintsInDome2006 said:

Yep I read it, it’s on my shelf. And I read several other books about local topography. Tried to figure it all out, understand why it happened.

Below sea level..WTF more ya need to know?

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

1 hour ago, Alias Detective said:

Below sea level..WTF more ya need to know?

How about the fact that just about every city in the world has their issues with disasters?

[Alias Detective 1,428]

1 hour ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

How about the fact that just about every city in the world has their issues with disasters?

Ok.  Other than the other below sea level shlthole Puerto Rico, who else needs 20 years to clean up?  I know, NO.

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

46 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

Ok.  Other than the other below sea level shlthole Puerto Rico, who else needs 20 years to clean up?  I know, NO.

 As someone who has been to Puerto Rico on business, that is the biggest shithole I’ve ever been to. We can agree on that. But, it hasn’t taken twenty years to clean up. The French Quarter was up and running a few weeks after. The major roads and arteries were back. We reopened the within a year. Mardi Gras was up and running five months later after. Businesses were back in operation within a few months. When you think of New Orleans, like a lot of yous, its not what you have seen or heard through certain channels of information. New Orleans isn’t just the city. It’s Greater New Orleans Area which encompasses five parishes. Are there shithole neighborhoods in the direct poor areas, of course. Just like any city in America. 
 

 I couldn’t believe how fast my city came back. There’s a song here called “Aiht There No More”. Which is true. It’s better than ever. Do you even know what the name Katrina means in history? To “cleanse” and “pure”. That biotch did both in less than thirty six hours.

Know what you’re talking about before you spout off about things you’ve heard regurgitated from the ignorant.

[Alias Detective 1,428]

42 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 As someone who has been to Puerto Rico on business, that is the biggest shithole I’ve ever been to. We can agree on that. But, it hasn’t taken twenty years to clean up. The French Quarter was up and running a few weeks after. The major roads and arteries were back. We reopened the within a year. Mardi Gras was up and running five months later after. Businesses were back in operation within a few months. When you think of New Orleans, like a lot of yous, its not what you have seen or heard through certain channels of information. New Orleans isn’t just the city. It’s Greater New Orleans Area which encompasses five parishes. Are there shithole neighborhoods in the direct poor areas, of course. Just like any city in America. 
 

 I couldn’t believe how fast my city came back. There’s a song here called “Aiht There No More”. Which is true. It’s better than ever. Do you even know what the name Katrina means in history? To “cleanse” and “pure”. That biotch did both in less than thirty six hours.

Know what you’re talking about before you spout off about things you’ve heard regurgitated from the ignorant.

 

On 8/26/2025 at 10:03 AM, Alias Detective said:

Someone I know just went to NO.  2 weeks ago.  They said places are still not cleaned up properly 20 years later.  Just let the shlthole flood already.

I trust my source as they have zero reason to lie either way. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

4 minutes ago, Alias Detective said:

 

I trust my source as they have zero reason to lie either way. 

 Some areas were NEVER clean. Does your friend make good scones?

[Mr Fantasy 67]

48 minutes ago, BunnysBastatrds said:

 Some areas were NEVER clean. Does your friend make good scones?

Good scones are hard to find. Most are just glorified biscuits that are called scones 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

 This time around now just twelve hours away from landfall, I finally got nervous for the first time after a rough morning fighting with family about me staying and not budging on my decision after all the screaming and alligator tears, I told them all bye, I’ll see you soon, don’t worry…blah blah blah.They left fivish in the morning and I then had most of city to myself, or so I thought. Took a doh-doh, got breakfast, made a Bloody Mary, answered phone calls, and hit my pitching wedge a shag bag balls into the lot across the street where they began building a house. Strange thing was the all pink sky. The calm before the storm. And when the winds started picking up, you could feel the barometric falling. Still gives me chills thinking about it. I started emptying the fridge and freezer with all contents when the lights started flickering and the news said we were going to have a direct hit. It actually made direct landfall in Buras,La, which is thirty five miles directly south of my house. 
 

 I had a few beers with my neighbor Mr.Clarence, the one who did time at Angola for stabbing a guy outside a pool hall. Watched a prom about a threesome in a bad storm with a Florida Keys like setting. Cleaned my club’s nervously like an old lady Iin her house gossiping like a hen at a knitting circle. 
 

 Part deaux next…

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

 Then she came around this time. Power out. Beer cold.Bunny sleeps.

 

 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

 What I watched 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

 It’s 7:10 and we were (city) an hour into landfall and intoxication and holy shiot. The winds came in cycles, pressure dropped drastically, the walls were breathing, and I had to change my underroos twice. No power. No AC. No TV. No computer. No chocolate pudding. No cell service. No end in sight, till the eye hits. 

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

Interesting one I found recently 

 

 

 

[posty 2,761]

RIP to those that lost their lives 20 years ago today...

[BunnysBastatrds 2,508]

1 hour ago, posty said:

RIP to those that lost their lives 20 years ago today...

I, as most, hate to see deaths due to Mother Nature. That includes all animals and insects even. It was insane after that biotch hit how you didn’t see a bird, a squirrel (rats with fuzzy flea infestation tails) and insects. Very bizarre and wide spread over the greater New Orleans area. Everything under water was fine unless a car, washing machine, old tire, and a fatal fatty. I wanted to go drive around and be a looking Lou but didn’t want to get pulled over, cause, ya know.,So listened to my hand helped portable AM radios and listened intently. That was right after the eye passed over awaiting for round two, the danger side. Ever notice how hurricanes, tornadoes, and other storms spin counter clockwise like mean wemens? 
 

 I got a knock on the door and it was Mr. Clarence checking on neighbors and needed some more a beer. His phone wasn’t working either. He was a cool cat who was also a good friend. Round two.