Hurricane Katrina - The Big One filmed in Florida, Louisiana, & Mississippi

[@dotsyjmaher]

Thank you for posting...I selectively have been watching Katrina/Rita videos to progressively deal with PTSD I am MUCH better. But facing the reality again is still stressful...GREAT JOB!

[@rethamoore4282]

Heartbreaking even today. I'll never get over it.

[@JimEdds]

The original Hurricane Katrina DVD is now up on KZbin in it's entirety.

[@SkyChaserCom]

I was chasing with Jim Edds and Jeff Gammons on this storm. Absolutely devastating to say the least. Even as a storm chaser this storm gave me nightmares for many months afterwards. Jim did an exceptional job at covering this storm.

[@mystorymylife9998]

How is Jim and Jeff doing these days?

[@boogitybear2283]

What was the comparison of this storm versus Hurricane Michael?

[@ryant114]

My high school graduation was held at the Gulf Coast Coliseum May 23, 2005. 3 months before this happened. I was living outside of Ocean Springs and stayed during it. Never again.

[@katielesinski3178]

Had to watch hurricane video for school! This is by far the best!

[@JimEdds]

Thank you Katie.

[@hipreplacer7]

Yeah me too, its quite remarkable the actual force of the hurricane. also I have to take my hat off to teh bravery of the storm chasers themselves.

[@texasallstar512]

me too!😨

[@HurricaneQueen777]

Love this so much. This is the most iconic footage ever. **Busts out the executive jet**

[@aprilchamberlain1677]

Thank you for sharing this! You did a great job. I wouldn't of been out in that. That camera you had on the ground I recognized the sound of the water hitting it I fell in the lake several times as a kid and couldn't swim so I got that sound ingrained in my memory. Gave me goosebumps & flashbacks My condolences to everyone that lost loved ones or lost everything in this disaster!

[@SnowPink90]

This was great filming. Katrina was totally insane. Glad you guys are safe. Off to the next storm!! 🚙

[@ronnieceremello6647]

I was living in Ocean Springs, MS during Katrina and stayed. Thank you for telling the TRUE story of Hurricane Katrina, the story forgotten to be told by the media.

[@sablephoenix5990]

+Ronnie Ceremello think 'haarp'

[@cariemorgangraff4829]

Ronnie Ceremello yep it certainly wasn’t just New Orleans. I now live in north Mississippi my neighbor used to live on the coast until Katrina

[@mssha1980]

ALF ALPHA it’s nothing to be angry about. Everyone suffered. Katrina was a rare catastrophe

[@matsrecordcollection]

Great video, I spent Katrina at the Sugar Mill apts. at 1200 Mill rd. Gulfport. Every bottom floor unit, including mine, was washed out, but the buildings held.

[@masonseitz5808]

My house was gone when I came back knowing that would be because I lived on the beach but cool vid.

[@boogitybear2283]

I can’t believe it’s now been 17 years since that Catastrophic Storm. What Camille didn’t Finish, Katrina did. I hope the Mississippi Coast NEVER experiences neither Hurricane ever again. Hurricane Ida was extremely close but Thank God it went West. Sorry Louisiana, but after Katrina, no more!

[@JimEdds]

If you liked the video show your support by clicking on the "Thanks" button above under the video. Thank you and thanks for watching. Jim

[@Houstonbluescenedavidsloan]

great video!!! I remember being at a Moody Blues concert in that Biloxi auditorium in 1978

[@ClarkBR549]

That poor bastard going for the President Casino's tokens wasn't able to cash in since they never re-opened LOL.

[@terryporche8745]

Wouldn’t have cash them anyway. Now that’s a DUMMY

[@carlasullivan3637]

You picked a good place to film. Nice work.

[@alexp2864]

Great documentary!

[@goodoldblighty7481]

I enjoyed watching this informative video,thanx for ur efforts in making this video (uk🇬🇧2019)👍👍☮️

[@DavidLovesJesus]

Thanks!

[@JimEdds]

Thank you David and thanks for watching the Hurricane Katrina video. It was quite the storm.

[@Houstonbluescenedavidsloan]

I went to a Moody Blues concert in that auditorium back in 1976 0r so. I also remember when the camille gift shop was a new boat parked on hwy 90 right after hurricane Camille, in 1969

[@rogeraydin908]

when in this video are the strongest winds recorded on camera? amazing DVD!

[@amesholmes5592]

Whose here watching this during the 2020 quarantine? Ok so anyways lol those things can record data 80 times a second😳😳😳😳 whoa!!! That's crazy in itself

[@OneLastHitB4IGo]

"In the presence of Nature's grand convulsions, man is powerless." Jules Verne

[@JLBREMER]

What an awesome job. I should of studied this instead of Recording Arts. Love the tech, you guys had probably a surf rated camera to shoot the Hurricane. BEFORE GoPro was a thing... lol there was camera housings... love it.

[@JimEdds]

Aqua Vision miniDV camcorder housing that I modified. Mainly designed for scuba diving. It had a wide angle lens but a zoom feature. The best of both worlds. Got the idea from a friend Mark Rackley of Wild Boys & JackAss fame. GoPros are nice but too wide and no zoom for the times you need it. Flexibility is key in a storm. Thanks for watching.

[@JLBREMER]

@@JimEdds super cool. Thanks for responding!

[@AthsMehDiaz]

I liked it good camera man only time he talked was when he was saying something important and "lets get out of here" =D gj

[@sablephoenix5990]

**Impressed with your photo journal video

[@NYCgirl927]

These guys are amazing.......Crazy but amazing

[@sunshine-oh3hm]

👍

[@JohnSmith-sj9dk]

dayum that's crazy. very powerful storm

[@3ARCMAZARC]

Watchin this at school gr8 vid

[@dianawingate8887]

These "hurricane hunters" are like the fighter & bomber pilots of WWII.......big brass balls !!! And God bless them!

[@Kyohan137]

I remember there was a city in Alabama where the only thing left standing was a water tower does anyone have any information about that town.

[@TylerSmith_WX]

i dont believe that could have been in Alabama... There wasn't any towns or cities in Alabama with that catastrophic of damage. The towns along the Mississippi coastline were catastrophically damaged though. places like biloxi and Gulfport ms were catastrophically damaged.

[@boogitybear2283]

Possibly Green Bay, Alabama which is on the border of MS.

[@melissajohnson2935]

Bay St Louis Mississippi is the town you are thinking about

[@rommeltapangbasco1010]

Your vedeo sir dangerous to much I believed so much your not afraid sir why....I salute you...godbless keep safe always...

[@JimEdds]

the risks I take are mitigated. Experience goes a long way too in knowing how to stay safe. Thanks for watching.

[@rommeltapangbasco1010]

@@JimEdds more welcome sir ..keep safe ...

[@josephpaaccio43]

good work ty

[@CreelKyle]

18:48 That Grand Casino had to be imploded after Katrina, it messed it up so bad

[@nana3491-w7b]

It irritates me that the news and this video act like Pascagoula didn't exist It was destroyed but is rarely mentioned.

[@littletrickster5053]

They totally left off a lot of cities in Mississippi that was ambushed and destroyed and it wasn't because of no old broken down levees. It was real destruction all up the coast of Mississippi all the way to Jackson.

[@bondalero0074]

I’m from same area and saw Fredrick in 79’ but this was much worse and Ms. Gulf Coast got the worst of it! Terrible memories of 2005 and rest of the world had no idea how bad we had it!

[@anthonybaruch8618]

i'm curious how the colliseum sustained such minimal damage being so close to the gulf? when the casino boat was dragged like 500 feet into land..

[@JimEdds]

Coliseum was flooded with about 3.5 feet of water. The Casino barge was pushed up to the nearby Holiday Inn that was just south and west of the Coliseum. It's easy to float a structure if it's not tethered like the Casino barge. Also round structures do well in wind and water vs a straight structure. But I wouldn't say the Coliseum sustained minimal damage - the bottom floor windows were all knocked out, inside ruined by saltwater. The structure itself was intact though. Remains to be seen what would have happened in a 175mph sustained Katrina. I think it would have made it but wind would have been circulating inside big time. We had a concrete walled room on the 2nd floor as a final safe room worst case scenario.

[@anthonybaruch8618]

thanks for the reply.. that must have been intense.. the storm surge would have scared me the most!

[@JimEdds]

Anthony Baruch something else I forgot to mention . . . the barge had a draft of probably 8 feet I'm guessing so it hit bottom and stopped it's inland march sooner. Otherwise it might have gone past the coliseum. If the barge had hit the coliseum we would have been in big trouble. Good question Anthony.

[@anthonybaruch8618]

Jim Edds wow! thanks for the amazing footage and great information as well. Glad you guys made it out okay and can now talk about it with others.

[@joeblowness5093]

Anthony Baruch aAà

[@besauk2952]

Are we any better at tracking these storms? And evacuation?

[@carlasullivan3637]

Besa Ukaslav they had a weeks notice.

[@Kalon2000]

Sharla Cobain no we didn’t. We had less than 2 days.

[@JB-hl1qx]

Those folks without cars or disabled were screwed. Those levees couldn't hold a category 3 let alone a category 5 storm . And the army corps of engineers knew it.

[@doyourbest.9554]

The answer is NO! As much as we pour into all that crap its of no use! If you live on the coast its only when not if!

[@mssha1980]

J B too bad no one alerts people sooner. People died unnecessarily

[@mauricemotors8207]

New Orleans should have listened to PBS in 2004 with Ivan playing chicken with them.

[@aaronposter1052]

You don’t understand that over 20% of the population didn’t have personal transportation, because of poverty. They physically couldn’t leave.

[@boogitybear2283]

What about Mississippi? They had it worse!

[@jessicablueheart9772]

@@boogitybear2283 is there a video of the missispi getting hit?

[@AreDoWeSheIt]

3:20 even the police is taking pictures!

[@engharun703]

thanks

[@anonymousyoutube4483]

This didn't load when I tried to watch it! ☹️

[@thonguyenthi277]

Anonymous KZbin --zfhoisubiendong.

[@kandi7776]

That almost hit my moms house but turnd right before it hit

[@tinaschlobohm9386]

I remember staying up all night watching in horror as I knew what it meant for a category 5 hurricane to hit New Orleans. HORRIBLE

[@willsonnss]

where they hide those supercar

[@NicoDaycon]

Copa Casino is not there any more.

[@terryporche8745]

Owners of the Copa owns the Island View now, which was the Grand

[@daencc]

anyone else here from school

[@MiggyCW]

How about using both sides of the interstate? Duh!

[@Yaunclejohn]

Watching this while getting hit by isaias

[@nathanaeltorres1593]

4:20 it was on florida tropical storm plese answer

[@tylercameron757]

Virginia plates?!

[@danielbethea9922]

😢

[@doyourbest.9554]

Satellites do fine...we don't need jets flying around! What a waste of taxes.

[@llpeahyllfox7903]

hurricane coming u need to came to get me gods zues next to my tree