PART TWO: Hurricane Katrina Sights in New Orleans | Free Tours by Foot

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[@joiedevivre2005]

I have to admit, I was hesitant to view this & the other Karina video, but you educated the viewers in a thoughtful, considerate way.

[@mysticdax]

Thank you so much for this. My daughter volunteered with an animal rescue organization after Katrina for several months, in the Upper 9th Ward, wading through unspeakable devastation. The steady exposure to the toxic household debris over several months eventually took its toll on her immune system. Thankfully she has been able to regain most of her good pre-Katrina health. The experience was traumatic, but also rewarding. I loved hearing about the many times they were able to reunite families with their pets. As a mom, I was proud, but also worried for her health, and I always wondered about the area where she was doing the search and rescue. I learned a lot from this video, and Part One too. Ironically, she had never been to NOLA before Katrina, but she'd heard so much about it from me because I love it and talk about it, even though I hadn't spent a lot of time there. She came home with a deep respect of the people and the culture, and I look forward to going back with her some day soon. You are all amazing. Thank you so much for all you do.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks for sharing your experiences with us. Glad that you enjoyed the video. If you haven't already done so, hopefully, you can check out our other virtual tours of New Orleans kzbin.info/aero/PLpNEdLF6RWV3oDPK7SD9GOttlhvaGBsh2.There is more where this came from.

[@pamelabrennan5076]

Thank you, well presented. And I do remember the song "Mother-in-law".

[@DeeElizabethFlint]

Born and raised in New Orleans (I live on the north shore now) but I just found your channel and I love it! Keep up the good work

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Glad that you enjoyed the video Devin. If you haven't already done so, hopefully, you can check out our other virtual tours of New Orleans kzbin.info/aero/PLpNEdLF6RWV3oDPK7SD9GOttlhvaGBsh2.There is more where this came from.

[@danielulz1640]

I just watched both parts of your Katrina sites tour and you never once mentioned the Convention Center. That is where, at noon on Wednesday, I was told, by police, to go from my apartment at Dauphin and Dumaine to be evacuated by bus. Busses arrived around six that evening, but when they were rushed by thugs and criminals, they slammed their doors and took off. You mentioned the delayed evacuation of the Super Dome. We were not evacuated until late saturday evening! I was one of the ones who were prevented from crossing the Pelican Bridge by armed Gretna city policemen at the top of the Melpomene ramp in New Orleans!! I have many more first hand accounts to tell.

[@Kibbleboy1]

outstanding such an eye opener

[@rebeccabsomanybooks3558]

New subscriber. Great video. I came to New Orleans 6 months after Katrina hit to volunteer and help. Words cannot begin to describe the pervasive devastation for miles . An experience I will never forget. People were warm and kind and their perseverance inspiring. Thank you for the update and continued success on your videos.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

And thank you for your service. Many of us here at Free Tours by Foot New Orleans share a similar New Orleans origin story.

[@vesvalens]

Really enjoying all of these New Orleans tours! Keep 'em coming!

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Will do. Thanks for watching (and we assume subscribing :))

[@skipjackification]

Thank You Andrew. Both part 1 and 2 were well done and informative. Keep up the good work! Skip B.

[@neilmitchell9668]

When I lived near New Orleans in the early 80s I spent a lot of time there, I absolutely fell in love with everything about the city! One thing I remember in those early days is that people seemed to wear as a badge of honor the fact that the flood walls were designed to withstand up to a Cat 3 hurricane. Anything stronger and the levees would be overtopped or fail altogether. It was well known what would happen, and obviously it did.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks for sharing that personal experience, Neil.

[@darlenashaw785]

I’ve been waiting for this since watching part 1! Thank you, Andrew! Another informative tour!

[@gavinsheldrake]

Always learning something new - thank you! Even having watched When the Levees Broke (we can’t seem to get Spike Lee’s follow up here in the UK, and not for lack of trying!) you still brought something new to this. Enjoy a slice of King Cake for us!

[@sharonclaridge]

This was a really interesting two-part tour. I live thousands of miles away and while I was vaguely aware of Katrina and the criticism of the authorities in not moving fast enough/doing enough when they did, it was great to hear a more in-depth account of what happened. It's almost surreal that in the 21st century in a developed country, the authorities were saying they couldn't reach the area when they'd been to the moon 50years earlier! I'm just outside a fishing village in the UK called Boscastle which was hit by a freak torrential rain storm in 2004 (very localised, a couple of miles away it wasn't even raining and it only lasted an hour or so) but the geography meant the water from the steep valley sides funneled into the harbour area and caused major structural devastation though happily, no lives lost. Worth an internet search :)

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Wow. I remember that flood in Boscastle. That was even before Katrina.

[@kathyeaton9769]

I’ve just finished all your walking tours of NOLA and they are great! You’re a great storyteller! Looking forward to more walks with you.

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We should have another one this Friday.

[@nolalove8909]

Outstanding! Tasteful and educational ❤️❤️❤️

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We are glad you enjoyed the video Julia. We also hope to show you around New Orleans when you get here. You can browse our tour selection here freetoursbyfoot.com/new-orleans-tours. In the meantime, check out some of our other free virtual tours. kzbin.info/door/sGkZk2PVM_gaZjS0VH8RCA

[@acaring2440]

Thank you ! Very interesting !

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We are glad you enjoyed the video. We also hope to show you around New Orleans when you get here. You can browse our tour selection here freetoursbyfoot.com/new-orleans-tours. In the meantime, check out some of our other free virtual tours. kzbin.info/door/sGkZk2PVM_gaZjS0VH8RCA.

[@donavonkeith8411]

Awesome awesome content!!!! Keep it up, you have a true eye and love for it that comes through.

[@lindabuck2777]

Well done! Narrative informative, engaging, and enlightening. As good as a PBS special, Anthony Bourdain would agree 😁 At the age of 66, growing up in Houston Texas reading the Houston post articles, to knowing many friends from all over Louisiana, the ‘troubles’ and battles and politics surrounding waterway issues, never got resolved. My best friends dad worked for Gulf Oil at the time, was called to New Orleans for a special ‘confab’ with The Army Corp of Engineers, geologists, meteorologists, etc. her dad returned home practically slamming the door (not his nature) fuming and fussing and stating that Nawlins was doomed because it was surrounded by egos and stupidity and politics and the tragedy was destruction of the people . Never saw him that mad ever again, but I consistently read and kept up with the flooding issues, and it was widely known well in advance, ninth ward would be devastated. Watching Katrina unfold broke my heart, really, double hit because of the oil spill as well. I think both these events had my friends dad rolling in his grave! So pathetically manmade and avoidable. So, being here in Phoenix having a pot luck discussion turns to Katrina, they won’t recover blah blah blah, I, having gift of gab tell the stories I’d grown up with, knowledge of southwestern Louisiana, had em feelin the swamps and moss covered trees to the bayous and parties and music Creole food AND Cajun food coz I know the difference. Then I epilogued it with Nawlins. Spirit soul and heart I STATED never dies, they continue and honey they’ll tell ya-we never left and we’re not goin anywhere, we just shine brighter at different times yet we always shine....🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🔥🔥🔥🌟🌟🌟❤️❤️❤️

[@dragoorion2680]

Thank you for doing these two videos. Great how you tell the stories. I was deployed from before Katrina made landfall till Oct 31st. I still have nightmares about what all I saw and had to do. I really want to come over to NOLA and make some new fantastic memories.

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Thank you for your service and we hope that you will come back and let us help you with those good new memories.

[@mrcdot7004]

Amazing video. Thank you for this.

[@tlandry9689]

I volunteered at an evacuation site in Lafayette, LA. My face of Katrina was a little ~ 4-6 yr old girl who was evacuated by herself without any family members. People prioritized evacuating children first in the early days. The authorities put barricades around cement areas of the parking lot of the evacuation center to make fenced in play areas. That little girl would stare out between the bars of the barricade at the neighborhood across from the parking lot as if longing for the life that was so traumatically wiped away. I hope her life turned out well.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Very sad but thank you for sharing this.

[@deb7518]

Praying for that girl now, as I read your memory. 😢 She'd be in her twenties by now.

[@candacerichie7099]

you are an amazing historian

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Glad that you enjoyed the video Candace. If you haven't already done so, hopefully, you can check out our other virtual tours of New Orleans kzbin.info/aero/PLpNEdLF6RWV3oDPK7SD9GOttlhvaGBsh2.There is more where this came from.

[@leonormuller6571]

I would like a video about the Natchez steamboat

[@TeeNan-rw5nv]

Wow! I’ve learned so much just watching these videos, thanks. You rock!

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Thank you for watching. We are so glad that you are finding value in our videos. We release new videos on Fridays.

[@pamelabrennan5076]

I became interested in New Orleans after watching the series, "Your honor" which was a great story which took place in your city. Thank you for your great videos.

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[@sharon-hermit]

Great video. Awesome tour guide.

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Thanks so much!

[@marblehead3398]

Thanks!

[@JLBREMER]

I'm here for Part 2. You remind me of one of my Music History teachers while I was attending Full Sail University. Hearing history told by someone who tells it like they were there and watched it all happen is really neat. I enjoy this type of thing. Thanks for the videos.

[@skeletalremains8555]

When I visited New Orleans we were staying outside of the city in Chalmette, so to get to the touristy stuff we had to go through the 9th ward to get there. It was a real eye opener on the reality of the city, it was a very sad experience but I'm glad I got to see it as well because I think as a visitor it gave me a completely different perspective. Most tourists the first thing they see is the beautiful homes and tourist attractions, but the first thing I saw was houses still destroyed from Katrina and homeless people. Despite seeing the problems of NOLA first hand, I still hope to move to the city in the not too distant future

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks for sharing this. And since you are hoping to move to the city, you might consider joining our We Love New Orleans group facebook.com/groups/1721747767985746. It consists of tour guides, locals, and people who are or have just visited New Orleans and are happy to provide answers or insight.

[@skeletalremains8555]

@@FreeToursbyFootHQ Ooo thank you very much! I'm not very active on Facebook but I might have to get back on now

[@MiracleFound]

I helped build a Habitat for Humanity house in the lower ninth ward.

[@ccthatsme.6186]

Informative take on the Katrina disaster. As a Floridian who loves NOLA, and lived through hurricane Andrew, I've been there several times. Didn't know much about the 9th ward. Only thing though, you start on one topic and don't finish your thoughts before jumping to the next. It was like waiting for a finale that never came. Otherwise very well put together videos.

[@annbush1826]

At 1:18 where Andrew starts talking about the live oak trees now gone, I wanted to interject the comment that the sheer volume of rain soaked the earth so heavily for 3 days and nights. It was like having a bucket of water poured non stop, Then the strong winds rose and as it was the front --the most powerful-- struck the trees with their loosened roots and they toppled like dominoes.

[@andrewterrebonne7015]

The comment about the 1927 river levee sabotage is mislocated. The damage was further downriver near the St.Bernard / Plaquemines Parish Line.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Well, technically you are right. The levee was detonated in the spot you mention. It flooded the Lower 9, and Lower 9 residents remember it as a reason to patrol their own levees during hurricanes

[@andrewterrebonne7015]

@@FreeToursbyFootHQ Don't know about it backflooding to that point. The IHNC was completed in early '20s. The area was sparsely populated then, except riverside of St.Claude. I grew up in 'da Uppa 9 during Betsy and remember the heavy flooding on the west side of the canal, as far up to Villere St.

[@andrewterrebonne7015]

@@FreeToursbyFootHQ As a native with deep family roots, I truly enjoy your presentations of our history.

[@injesusnamewepray46]

We should start a gofundme for all the people who lost their houses and loved ones during Katrina-many people in the lower 9th Ward were people who's family had lived in these 100% owned homes for generations. Lots of history and tradition from here...Fats Domino was instrumental, influential, irreplaceable in all musical styles we as Americans hold dear. Then each of us get ourselves and at least 2 others to donate five bucks. And keep going month to month if we can, and we'll eventually get enough people to come back. But i think they should build all the houses on 20ft high pilings tho....

[@JB-hl1qx]

When I visited I ate at a seafood place across the street from the mother in law lounge in front of the overpass and it was our first boil we've ever eaten. AMAZING 🤩. Can't remember the name of it for the life of me tho. Your videos are the best !

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Thank you.

[@hue732]

You should do a virtual tour in Biloxi Mississippi because it was also affected by hurricane Katrina

[@magicmike41]

Isn’t the lower 9th a really rough neighborhood for visitors to go to walk around in?!?

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

It isn't a rough neighborhood anymore. For the respect of residents, however, it is best if it is toured by bike or personal car.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

@@str8poosing No.

[@magicmike41]

@@str8poosing no not at all. But i go to Nola a few times a year and for a good while they would say it’s a rough neighborhood because it was still pretty damaged so not safe to go on your own. They used to encourage you took a tour to see this area but now the residents don’t like that. They didn’t like people coming to gawk at their area

[@jayathome2898]

Very well done Part 1 and 2. We lived in New Orleans during the early 90’s. I worked as a nurse at Oschner, and volunteered to stay in the city during Hurricane Andrew. Watching the aftermath of Katrina years later I was struck by two things. Firstly, that I had no idea how much potential tragedy we could have experienced if Andrew had made a direct hit on New Orleans. And secondly how ill prepared the city was for that level of storm, and for how long it had been so. We have been back several times, and coming again next month. Wondering if you have any new recommendations for visiting in the lower 9th and how that area has faired due to Covid. Thanks!

[@anne7441]

Thank you for covering the story from other than a totally white perspective. Great tour!

[@joanpearl1454]

Took a bicycle tour of the lower 9th a year after the flood. We were surprised that most residents were not destitute, as the media led you to believe.

[@wellardsmith3629]

How safe is it to visit these areas. Coming from Europe, we are told crime and muggings are a real danger. I'd love to visit, but hold reservation.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Good question Wellard. And to answer this particular question, we recommend you to see our video here kzbin.info/www/bejne/d4nSYWaKmaijosk Hopefully, it will answer most of your questions. Thanks!

[@richard51]

Lee Harvey Oswald was born in the Lower 9th

[@SnowPink90]

I feel so bad that those people on the Lower 9th Side suffered as much as they have. I always thought Brad Pitt and Harry Connick Jr. we’re the big Hollywood names that were going to do nothing but positive things for the people. The poorest of people are always forgotten about whereas those that live on the other side had their houses repaired relatively soon after Katrina. Why hasn’t there been any outcry concerning this? I’d like to sit down with Brad Pitt and ask him what’s going on. It’s not like he’s struggling trying to make ends meet. Very disappointing.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Not sure exactly but there was a big need for housing fast that relied on donations to get built.

[@jhongauntt4918]

Poorpicksupthepiecepowerof

[@richard51]

I thought Fats lived in the Upper 9th.

[@michaelderenne9838]

I'd really like to visit New Orleans one day but why people want to live there with the possibility of getting flooded and destroyed every single year is beyond me. No thanks

[@buzzevermore9309]

Tip: i always want to see the sites. Not interested in these long views of your face.

[@christaclemons1455]

This is hard to listen to.

[@danielulz1640]

It was harder to live through. I was there before, during and for six days after Katrina before being evacuated.

[@michaelderenne9838]

Dude who cares just show the damage. Blah blah blah