Swedish couple reacts to - Hurricane Katrina " When Weather Changed History"

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[@Amandaarford83]

One amazing thing that showed how people can help each other is them forming “The Cajun Navy” after Katrina which was just ordinary citizens using their boats to evacuated their neighbors. They still function to this day and will load up their boats and go to other states to help after Hurricanes. You might enjoy watching something about them.

[@ashleydixon4613]

Yes! As an Arkansan, I’m quite familiar with the Cajun Navy. They should definitely look into that, it’s a great example of ordinary citizens organizing to use their own resources and manpower to help others.

[@Amandaarford83]

@@ashleydixon4613 I’m an Arkansan too!

[@kristy143]

I have seen a lot on the Cajun Navy. I am in total awe of them. They are just amazing.

[@KathyM1611]

Love the Cajun Navy, God bless them.

[@jacquettawhite1287]

The Cajun Navy showed up and showed out during Hurricane Harvey. I live in Port Arthur. The water started rising in the middle of the night. I get emotional thinking about an image of a long line of people with boats food and supplies waiting to be allowed in so that they could get to work.

[@lindadianesmith6013]

To answer Carol’s question - Katrina was the biggest in our lifetime. Galveston was the worst in our recorded history.

[@Suprachiasmatic]

I read a book about the Galveston hurricane. Holy crap, that one seems almost otherworldly in its destruction.

[@ashleydixon4613]

No doubt. I can’t imagine going through a storm like that, before you had any chance of getting inland to safety. The people stuck on the island really didn’t stand a chance.

[@tiamarrow6366]

For those of us on the east coast….it was Sandy. Though Sandy was a Cat 3, the impacts certainly weren’t. Here on Long Island NY, we still have some homes and areas that are gone because Sandy that were never built again.

[@helenwilliams7065]

Read "Isaac's Storm". 1900 Galveston hurricane. Heart-breaking😢

[@dennymartin18]

​@@SuprachiasmaticGalveston in 1900 and Katrina in 2005 were pretty bad in terms of flooding, loss of life and damage. I was at ground level zero for Katrina in the Superdome and on the aMississiopi Gulf Coast for Camille in 1969. That hurricane was the most downright scariest, most ferocious hurricane of all after the one that hit the Florida Keys in 1935. The whole Mississippi Gulf Coast was flattened and destroyed. Winds were at over 180 mph with wind gusts over 230 mph. Windvanes were blosn off over 200mph. Top that... C-A-M-I-L-L-E AUGUST 1969. Same weekend as Woodstock music festival I think.

[@user-fo9ep4lp5x]

Carol, you are absolutely right to question what people who can’t afford to leave do. It was a big contributor with loss of life because there is a large population that simply did not have the resources. It was all so heartbreaking.

[@shezdina7611]

New Orleans is actually BELOW sea level. Disastrous for hurricanes when the levees aren't working properly. Their Governor should have had mandatory evacuations WAY sooner. You could see how bad it was when it was still in the gulf.

[@rhondahandley9595]

I agree 100% but they seemed more concerned with visitors and vacationers than citizens. If you haven't been through a hurricane or a tornado, get the hell home. Plus it being the end of the month, many didn't have money to rent a car to get out. And if they were a visitor, they took the cars first. Way too little done for the residents and way to late to come up with any escape routes too!

[@kateg7298]

My brother in law rescued a Katrina dog who was relocated to Colorado. We were in a big truck and as I looked out over a swampy area next to the road, I spotted a black labrador thrashing in the water. He was worn out and starting to go under. I yelled STOP!!! and he locked up the brakes and went into that swamp after the dog. The dog was still traumatized from the hurricane and tried to run from him so he had to swim and catch the poor dog by one foot. He came out of the swamp carrying that dog over his head so that the dog wouldn't drown and he was exhausted by the time he reached the shoulder of the road. Luckily, a crowd of people had stopped and a lawyer put the dog into his Porsche of all things. He made the news for rescuing a Katrina dog and they said some random truck driver went in after him. We never told who it was and I was never prouder of someone in my life as I was of my brother in law.

[@mokokawi]

Amen 🙏

[@collectgemsosrs6298]

Katrina rescue dog in a Porsche lol

[@wanir]

@@kateg7298 As you should be 🙏🏼 There's still abandoned homes in my grandmother's area that to this day....has the FEMA Death count markings on them! ❌

[@Amandaarford83]

@@kateg7298 I’m

[@blessed3779]

Yes, kudos to him for saving an animal and caring for the animals trauma…… F the human beings who did not get saved and F the trauma of actual humans who survived this atrocity…… He deserves a Purple Heart for saving the life of that animal and helping heal the animals trauma……. If tone deaf was a person SMH 🙄

[@UncleBuckRodgers]

❤ Texas took in a lot of people during/after Katrina. Many of them never went back and have become permanent residents.

[@Cookie-K]

Still here and very teary-eyed because remembering this breaks my heart....Americans from all over the country felt absolutely helpless.

[@brendaaverett4339]

I lived through Katrina. At the time, I lived about 90 miles north of New Orleans. I was the care giver for my elderly aunt who was bed ridden, so there was no way to evacuate easily. In a hurricane, water and tornados are the major concern. My aunt's house was well built, but in a tornado, which there are many in a hurricane, there is no where to hide. The winds were howling, and I could hear limbs breaking and what sounded like trees falling. We lost electricity early in the night. There is no way to open a window and it gets very hot, but we survived. We were lucky even though I had a tree on my house. No electricity, no phones. no way to cook. I had a generator, but it was at my house and I was not strong enough to get it over to my aunts home. My aunt and I did the best as we could. After a oouple of days, my daughter and her husband got through the down trees to help us. We were fortunate. Was I scared? You bet I was. I have actually lived through several hurricanes since then, but none as bad as that.

[@seekexplorewander]

I was a high school teacher in Philadelphia when Katrina struck. We took in three students for a year who lost their homes due to the storm. I felt so bad for them at the time, but they were amazing students and resilient teenagers and made the best of it.

[@babynursekaren]

*Still here*, halfway. Watched the video all the way through. This made many Americans angry, feel helplessness, and extreme sadness also. Unbelievable what humans had to live through during this disaster. Poor planning, very poor response, poor people. 🥺😭

[@ashleydixon4613]

Absolutely! I’m from Arkansas, we get the hurricane evacuees from the Gulf. I’d honeymooned in New Orleans in 1996, and to sit there watching the total shit show going on in that city made me so upset, and so angry. It was 100% avoidable.

[@daleladell803]

Still here, and crying. Lived in New Orleans at the time. Was lucky enough to live in the "sliver by the river" in Uptown, the highest spot in the city. My home didn't flood. Evacuated to Memphis with my son. Couldn't come home for 5 weeks when they finally opened our zip code. The damage was indescribable. We started to see damage from the storm over 100 miles north of the city. I was in such a state by the time we finally got to the city limits that I could barely breathe. The smell was unbelievable. Everything was covered in dry muck. When we got close to our house and realized that it had not flooded in our neighborhood, the relief was so profound. It took weeks for all our neighbors to come home. It was eerie to be there with just the patrolling National Guard. They checked up on us every day. I still get anxiety every time I see documentaries like this. This is the first one I've been able to watch this much of. It's been almost 20 years and we're all still suffering from PTSD to one degree or another. I'm still very grateful to the people of Memphis who opened their hearts to us and were so kind to those of us who evacuated and spent over a month with them waiting to come home.

[@kimharding2246]

@@daleladell803 You were smart to evacuate. God bless you and your family.

[@wanir]

@@daleladell803 I know exactly what you are talking about. I too evacuated but wasn't as fortunate to return to an unscathed home. I saw my father in this video and it broke my heart. I remember how frantic I was trying to locate him and my brother but I had no choice but to get out due to my child. I'm so happy that you found great people to comfort you in Memphis. There was so much disdain for us in Houston that I had to continue driving to far West Texas. I was occasionally called a "refugee" but overall my new city took great care of us.

[@sarahsarahsarah9093]

I was a freshman in high school in central Louisiana during hurricane Katrina. Our school was used as a shelter. When we came back afterwards we found thank you notes hidden in the classrooms from people who stayed there ❤

[@brendahowell6796]

I lived in Arkansas and I had just lost my Dad. 3 families that I knew called me and told me what was going on and I told them to come on up. I had 7 people and 2 little dogs staying with me for about 6 weeks. I felt so sorry for them but was so thankful that they made it out safe.

[@reneerollins4433]

There is always ample time to evacuate. But if people don't have family or funds, sometimes they just pray that they're spared. Plus, people with animals are very torn, because shelters will not let you bring your pets😢😢

[@lindadianesmith6013]

Because of the Katrina disaster, the evacuation guidelines have been changed. Thank goodness. I wouldn’t leave my dog and cat behind either.

[@henny8883]

​@lindadianesmith6013 in florida they won't take the animals unless you have up to date vet records and even then they don't let you stay with your pet, they put the animals in a diff area and only 1 person can visit them every hour or so. I always ride it out with my pets. They stay, I stay, I don't care how many people tell me I'm stupid lol

[@Julio-zl7yk]

When it comes to funds... those people chose their financial path. I refer to him as welfare people. As far as evacuating we all know why certain people stayed behind when they could have evacuated. They stayed behind to loot the stores and people's houses. So quit making excuses for them.

[@srqlisa7881]

I have experienced multiple tornadoes multiple tropical storms and two hurricanes and Katrina still scares the shit out of me.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

Why does Katrina scare you? It's been over for almost 20 years.

[@srqlisa7881]

@@mortimerbrewster3671 because it could happen again .

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

@@srqlisa7881 True or it may not. Personally, tornadoes are my issue. I grew up in SoCal so earthquakes don't phase me; hurricanes give so much warning that you can leave if you don't wait too long. Tornadoes, however give little warning and are so destructive in their lowest category.

[@KaylieRobinson]

@@mortimerbrewster3671 I agree little to no warning is scary, However, no amount of warning matters if you don't have the means to actually evacuate. Hurricane flooding can last for weeks. Tornadoes wind and rain hours. Having been through the 89 earthquake, hurricanes, AND tornado outbreaks, hurricanes are the worst by far.

[@gamingwitharlen2267]

@srqlisa7881 What the video didn’t emphasize was that the Levees in New Orleans were only built to handle up to only a cat 2. On top of that those same Levees were in a state of disrepair and thus even weaker. Katrina just came and wiped out the levees because of how weak they were. Today the levees are built to withstand basically every kind of hurricane and are much better maintained. So most likely the levees today would hold if Katrina happened again.

[@mckayaitch7335]

I lived in south Mississippi about 50 miles north of New Orleans during Katrina. One thing they don’t mention in the video about how Mississippi handled things “better” is that much of Mississippi is rural so there are lots of people with chainsaws and power tools and farm equipment and machinery and stuff. Several trees were down across the driveway at my sister’s house which is where we sheltered for the storm and the next morning some neighbors came with chainsaws and their trucks and cleared the driveway so we could leave. Not the case in New Orleans for obvious reasons. So I think that’s more a matter of luck and circumstance than it is a case of Mississippians having more of a “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” mentality. I don’t like how that one guy characterized it in that way. Edited to add: and see later in the video it talks about the Cajun navy in Louisiana saving people on boats! Everyone did what they could with what they had and I don’t think the people of Louisiana should be looked at as doing less to help others and themselves than the people of Mississippi. Our government failed the people of Louisiana.

[@kate2create738]

I also heard volunteers from the area tried to help, even offering to use their chainsaws, to help clear the roads or other damages that was slowing the response but was turned away. Eventually those who were in charge loosened the regulations to allow volunteers to come in to offer their help, but by then it made a huge delay in the response.

[@billyhndrsn4542]

Remember the local government, city, parish, state must invite the federal for assistance. President Bush did have that conference call with Ray Nagin and Governor Blanco before landfall and was told they will handle it, but of course they didnt know the levee was going to break either. More calls, refusal of federal assistance and the guard. Politics has no place in emergencies.

[@tatacousin]

I remember when Katrina hit, I was pregnant with my 3rd daughter, due late September. My husband was in the Nat'l guard at the time & I remember him being worried that they will send him down to LA & he'd miss our daughter's birth. He left September 3rd & I had her the very next day. It was a month before he could meet her face. She just graduated highschool this year!

[@justmeiniowa]

28:18 still here !

[@bridgetpaul663]

One thing they didn't show was the abandonment of nursing homes with elderly still in them. No power, no food, no help the elderly died. My heart goes out to the ones forgotten or just left behind because it was too much of an effort to relocate them so they left them there to "fend for themselves". Katrina was horrible on so many levels and I believe there was a movie based on a hospital's attempt to deal with Katrina and the disaster taking place around them.

[@hmixon99]

I was part of the group that had to recover them.

[@bridgetpaul663]

@@hmixon99 I can't even fathom the trauma with all that you have seen. It takes strength and grace to deal with what you do.

[@petermiller4953]

Some areas of Louisiana are STILL recovering from it to this day as far as i know. Katrina is a name that will go down in the anals of history as destructive as hell Carol: "Who films these things?" Recky: "People." LOL Great answer Recky!

[@earlymorningtwilight9119]

It was so devastating and overwhelming that no one was prepared. Most of the blame lies with the local government. They should have had the levees in good working order and had evacuation orders for the entire area. There were so many safety precautions they could have had in place.

[@WolfsbaneHollow]

San Antonio Texas is about 550 miles from New Oleans. Our city opened shelters, empty malls, community centers for anyone who was evacuating if they made it this far. Many people here opened their homes to strangers to help out, but it turned out that many were trapped there and we helped them with places to stay after the disaster when their city was still unhabitable. Many other cities between here and there did the same, so those who didn't have places to go, who couldn't get hotels, could seek shelter here. The big problem was many people there didn't have transportation and got stuck there, and that was when the real disaster started. People trapped without food, clean water, even bathroom facilities, and some even turned on each other. I know that people from hundreds of miles around grabbed personal boats, we loaded trucks with food and water, and sent them in as rescue attempts but the task was so huge that much of it was too late for some. The government screwed up, but the people in neighboring states rallied incredibly.

[@reginaldgriffin4978]

To be honest....as an new orleans native....this video only covered 75% of the bad things that happened. I evacuated but my friends and family stayed and told me what happened. The government response was so horrible. The people started rebuilding new orleans themselves.

Gotta have balls of steel to stand in the way of a storm like that

[@kristy143]

I worked for a company in South Florida at this time that went in when called by the Army Corps of Engineers called for help to get all the pumps restarted. Unfortunately, they did not call until almost 2 weeks after Katrina. The engineers at my company were able to get the pumps working again. I could not believe it took so long, but was so proud that my company made a difference.

[@jamie-uy8tm]

I am a survivor of Hurricane Katrina. I stumbled on this video on aug 29 ,2024 the 19th anniversary of the most life changing event of all of south louisianians.

[@briangoss8062]

At 46:57 you see houses with big X's spray painted on them. Each diamond of the X has information spray painted in it. This represented whether or not it has been extensively searched and when and other useful info. One square/diamond was ALSO used to mark how many bodies were recovered from that building and if there were STILL unrecovered bodies present to be retrieved inside! Also initially Katrina was 140MPH which is 225KPH and that was SUSTAINED winds. That means gusts got up to 160 or 180MPH gusts or 180/290KPH for gusts.

[@shenaniganss_4259]

Something I didn’t see mentioned was the cemeteries…. the mass flooding eroded the ground and caused the caskets and bodies to come to the surface and they began floating around the flooded city. A horrible sight to see…

[@JEFFwasHERE...]

I was in hurricane Katrina in Biloxi Mississippi on the Gulf Coast. You're never the same after experiencing something like that. I feel for anyone who experiences storms like this in the future.

[@pamk2061]

During a hurricane they open shelters for people. For Katrina, they opened one shelter in the Superdome in NOLA. The superdome didn't handle the hurricane well. They opened shelters in Texas and bussed people there. I remember Katrina well. I had friends who lived in New Orleans, they were able to get out. I used to live on the US east coast. I lived a block away from the ocean. When they said hurricane, I packed up essential items, ie passport, pets, food and water and some clothing and would leave. I was lucky since my parents were 5 hrs away. I just went to their house.

[@henrymann8122]

I was there 2 days after hurricane Katrina passed through the area. At that time, I was living in Tampa, Florida and I was part of an armed security detail that escorted powerline workers from TECO (Tampa Electric Co.) to the area to assist in getting power back to the homes and businesses. It was pure devastation...I'll will never forget that time.

[@mikedaflexta]

I was injured in Iraq the same week Katrina hit my hometown. My girlfriend had just given birth to my oldest son, and they were stuck in the superdome. I feel like God makes no mistakes because by me being an injured war vet, The Air Force and red cross went above and beyond to locate and evacuate my entire family, including my girlfriend and child to Washington DC where I was transported to. To my shock, when a woke up from my coma, everybody was at my bedside. I was so confused because the last memory I had was lying on the dirt in Iraq waiting to die, and I wake up to mostly my whole family being with me. They purposely didn't tell me about Katrina until October because they didn't want me to stress out during my recovery. I'm glad they did because when they finally let me know what had happened, I was devastated for the entire gulf coast. Most of my people lost everything in that storm. I live in Miami now but whenever I go to New Orleans, I am thankful to all the different services who rescued my family.

[@rina1744]

@mikedaflexta as the wife of a vet thank you for your service and I am glad you and family are doing ok.

[@mikedaflexta]

@@rina1744 Thank you. I call you all "veteran wives" People don't realize the sacrifice you guys make as well.

[@rina1744]

@@mikedaflexta much appreciated my dear. Peace to you and family! 🙂

[@minsugasmelanin.6656]

I was 7 when hurricane katirna came through. Even though we were further north the hurricane still did some damage to houses and knocked down trees and it just got worse and worse the further south you went and 517 prisoners went accounted for. The evacuation road actually goes through my parish but i was so young i don’t actually remember any of it. just bits and pieces.

[@sandrapierce9504]

While New Orleans gets all the publicity, the Mississippi Gulf was wiped out. It looked like an atomic bomb had fallen. I live about 2 hrs from the Mississippi Coast. We were the hardest hit inland county. It was said that about 30 tornadoes moved through our county. We had no electricity, no water, and little gasoline. One difference between the people of Mississippi and the people of New Orleans is that we didn't gripe or complain. By the break of dawn, you could hear chain saws everywhere. Since food was going to spoil, neighbors raided their own food storage and cooked up food for their neighbors on grills. One chicken factory in our area sent a truck load of chicken to our church. We cooked up chicken and boxed up lunches for 1000 workers.

[@elementxghilliejoshf.2844]

I was young when all this happened, but this cemented my belief that trusting the government will get you and your family killed. Happy to live with people like this who know how to get things done when it comes down to it.

[@elizabethmuhleisen357]

We had homes in New Orleans and Pearl River County. I cried when we drove down to Biloxi (where some of my ancestors lived) a couple of months later. I must say that I get mad when hearing about people in Mississippi started cleanup right away, while people in Louisiana just “sat around.” Kind of hard to do things while the area was still flooded! We weren’t allowed back into New Orleans until early October. Everyone I knew worked their behinds off cleaning up and repairing. I worked out of town during the week and spent weekends cleaning out my and my Mom’s houses. It was so depressing to keep hearing -mainly from conservatives talk radio stations - that New Orleanians were just a bunch of lazy layabouts. I worked at LSU Dental School in New Orleans, which flooded. We lazy layabouts went into the building after the waters went down, with no electricity,and removed everything we needed down multiple flights of stairs, so that we could set up a temporary campus in Baton Rouge, where we stayed until September 2007.

[@fumesniff]

we are still rebuilding from this on missippi coast

[@tauceti8060]

After almost 20 years???

[@JamieOwens-rg8hd]

@@tauceti8060yes. Every building on the coastline was gone. Huge antebellum homes, casinos, stores, and whole neighborhoods. Just slabs left. There are still many empty lots on hwy 90 where people who lost their homes chose not to rebuild there.

[@hotcocoa00]

Still here 😢 thanks for watching this life altering event w us. I remember being in school in TN and getting new students in my class from New Orleans after Katrina, bc they had to move abruptly.

[@RichDenman]

I appreciate you two still making yourself look nice for videos, you are an adorable pair.

[@cattfink5036]

I always always think on those that were locked up in jails and prisons at the time. They're often left out of the story, but their experiences and fear, trauma and pain and losses are as important to memorialize and record as any.

[@lindacarroll6896]

I don't know if someone else commented on this, but in New Orleans, the coffins are in mausoleums above ground. Because the city is below sea level, they cannot bury casket underground. They did not float up from underground, but floating out of mausoleum is bad enough.

[@larrym.johnson9219]

Hey Recky and Carol The ineptitude was on all levels it was like sitting up Domino's, the local response was haphazard the maintenance on the dykes had been neglected and the storm was a massive 5 the federal response was there, but the immense disaster dwarfed what could be done, quickly! It was a lesson that I hope we never forget! I live in Florida, so I am aware of hurricanes I am in the north central part of the state not on the coast Recky you are correct the South we get whacked with a lot. !🔥🤟🇺🇸🐊 Here!

[@willowrosenberg20041]

When our city is evacuating for floods there are usually places set up in safe places for us to go if you had nowhere else to go, one year we stayed in a big building at the fairgrounds in a neighboring city.

[@dennymartin18]

Me and my then 80 year old neighbor were the last two people who vacated the Superdome from ve days after being St ck in the Superdome with about 40,000 other people who had no mode of evacuation before the storm hit and were basically left abandoned to fate and an eight hour beast packing 140mph winds with wind gusts up to 175mph. It was an interesting 5 days inside the Superdome where time stood still. Some people slept all the time, I myself averaged I think one hour of sleep a day but I wasn't tired because we didn't know exactly how long we had been awake. I let 40,000 people run for the buses on Day 5. I was in no hurry even though I had caught a nasty cellulitis infection in my legs in the Dome from wearing flip flops on my feet and sloshing through an inch or two of urine on the bathroom floors all around the Dome. Forget about what was piled a two feet high in the toilet stalls; the plumbing went out the first day in there. The smell was getting toxic to nside. They had to evacuate us by the fifth day. Buses went to Houston, then Dallas.i was tue first person on the first bus to Dallas. By that time, my legs from the cellulitis infection had turned from red to crimson to black up to my calves. By the time I got to Dallas, I was in the Intensive Care Unit for 8 days.

[@Robin52665]

Still here. My husband, daughter, parents and myself were living in Meridian, MS at the time Katrina hit. Meridian is usually the place for the coast to evacuate to when this happens. When Katrina hit we had tornadoes all around us and no power for at least a week to a week and half. We still had family that did not evacuate the coast. It wasn't because they couldn't evacuate. My husband had a niece that was on her roof and pregnant during the flooding. Lots of people in MS had to live in tents for a couple of months. I will say that even though MS did not get the attention New Orleans did, the people of MS pulled together and got things done. We didn't wait for the government and the Red Cross to help. We were called the Land Mass between Louisiana and Alabama because no one could remember what state we were. Waveland and Bay St. Louis, MS was nearly wiped off the map. They were the bullseye of the hurricane.

[@JennRighter]

What’s wild is that to this very day there are parishes in and around New Orleans still in ruins. Never saved or rebuilt. Almost 20 years later. New Orleans is one of the most fun and fascinating cities in all of America. It’s a beautiful city with a very unique history and architecture. But to today, as I’m typing this, August of 2024, there are still parishes that have been left in ruin and never recovered or rebuilt.

[@janetsmiley6778]

I used to live in NO. I was on a beach trip when the levees broke. I sat, transfixed in horror, watching my neighborhood under water. NO has occasional flooding during heavy rain. I a seen people paddling down Canal street. I had to wade out of a dental office once in 1979.

[@elizabethchiasson1619]

I’m from south Louisiana below New Orleans and believe you me Katrina was no joke …..it was bad for weeks and weeks

[@psrandy1]

I was in Katrina. I lived in the 9th ward with friends of mine. We ministered around New Orleans and in the 9th ward feeding the poor and those in need. I was one that did leave a day early to go to Dallas Tx. I never was able to return to my home. It was destroyed. The Levee was only a couple blocks from our home. You have no idea the destruction, death and the issues it was to get replacement legal documents for us. I had to move to Florida and from there we moved to the North. It was a horrible time for me. But God brought me through.

[@wanir]

😮😢I SAW MY FATHER!!! 😭😭 HE WAS IN THE SUPERDOME CLIP!!! HE PASSED AWAY 6 MONTHS AGO 😢 Still here, still crying! There were family members that I could not find to take with me, including my father and brother. It took me and my very young son, 6 hours to drive 45 minutes out of New Orleans ⚜️. We endure part of the storm in my vehicle and thankfully a kind kind stranger allowed us and my mom to stay with them

[@reckyNcarol]

Aw im so sorry for your loss 😢❤️

[@wanir]

​@@reckyNcarolYou know it'll be 19 years this month and I still suffer from severe stress during hurricane season. Afterwards, we were not allowed back to survey the damage until October 2005. By that time most homes were full of mold 😔. My brother was a Deputy Sheriff, he had volunteered to work and stay at the city jail in New Orleans. Well, the jails were under nearly 12ft of water! There's documentaries on KZbin about the Orleans Parish Prison During Hurricane Katrina. That will blow your mind 😢 my brother and his co-workers were left on the roof while the inmates that didn't perish were moved to a bridge. Once rescued, the Deputies were dropped off at the airport with nothing. They were instructed to get on a plane not sure of where it was going. My brother, ended up in Georgia and by that time I had made it to far West Texas. We begged for him to get a flight out of Georgia to Texas but the government wouldn't financially assist. My dad ended up in Arkansas completely alone.

[@intodaysepisode...]

This was so TRAUMATIZING! I left New Orleans the day before the storm. It still brings up so many emotions. As a Louisianian, this was a GREAT video to show the devastation.

[@randykillman6475]

Still here and I was there. I went to Bay Saint Louis, Mississippi for three weeks in September as a volunteer to help those still there alive. I have many stories from that time. Sad stories and some nice stories of people helping people. Many of those left in the area were elderly who were left with no home, no medications, no cars, no identification, no phone, no electricity, no clean water, no food and no access to money. Many only had the clothes on their backs and they were wet, for days wet. Black mold covering any wall left standing causing respiratory issues. Don't get me started talking about FEMA failures or how politics played a part or the misrepresentations that were in the news. To be very clear... the government is in no way prepared for a large problem. Every family needs to be prepared to care for themselves in the case of a disaster. It may be many days before any help will arrive. At the time all law local law enforcement is a victim of the disaster so you are trying to survive in a lawless area.

[@terryjolly5167]

One thing you also had to worry about was alligators swimming all around in the water too.

[@nathanmclaughlin304]

I live 50 miles North of New Orleans on the Northern edge of Lake Ponchatrain in a place called Ponchatoula, La. We were without electricity, water, and natural gas for 8 weeks. The wind snapped pine trees off 30 feet up and wrecked havoc on power lines and other infrastructure. Tornadoes up ended wide swaths of cars, houses, and boats. There were boats that ended up 20 miles away from where they were moored. It was hell. If we didnt have a generator, we woulda been in the worst situation imaginable.

[@suefantastic4584]

Still here.. a Florida resident btw.. xo

[@kaisha915]

Not in New Orleans...2hrd away in Lafayette. We had NO rain from Katrina. Gustav got to this end of Louisiana. We're resilient, so we survive.

[@christomashofski9160]

In the towns I grew up in (around Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) we had a history-changing flood from the remnants of Hurricane Agnes in 1972, the year I graduated from high school. The cemetery in a town (we call them "Boroughs") named Forty-Fort lies on an oxbow of the Susquehanna River. It was protected from seasonal flood waters by a "seawall" of steel sheet piling. It worked great for yearly high water flows but was no match for Agnes. The shape of the oxbow caused the river water to roil and churn where the land was forcing it to turn the sharp corner. The roiling subsurface water gradually excavated the river bottom until it undermined the sheet steel. So the flood waters entered the cemetery from beneath causing the caskets to explode out of the ground like geysers, as reported later by the cemetery caretaker who stayed around until the very last minute. When caskets started blowing out of the ground, he jumped in his old pickup truck to escape to the neighboring town on higher ground. He reported that he was barely able to outrun the advancing wall of water. The flood waters from Agnes eventually reached up to the third floor in these west-side boroughs. One man who lived in Forty-Fort returned home after the water receded to discover a casket had floated through the window into his second floor bedroom. In a bizarre twist, it was the casket of his wife, who he had buried only about a month before the flood. She had come home. 😢

[@manxkin]

We were in New Orleans visiting relatives when hurricane Camille was approaching back in 1969. We packed up and headed back to Illinois.

[@judydechant9205]

Still watching! I remember this hurricane well. So so devastating 😢Best wishes from Tennessee 😊🇺🇸

[@blondie7238]

I grew up right outside of New Orleans. Most people I grew up with plus my siblings, their families and my Great Aunt all lost everything in Katrina. If you look up St. Bernard Parish you’ll see where all of that was. There were no habitable homes left out of 60-70 thousand homes. If you read the book “The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous” goes into details. My brother and I (mostly my brother) are mentioned in this book. St. Bernard Parish has largely been ignored. My brother was missing from us for four days. Eventually at the end of the four days we found out he was ok and had been rescuing people that whole time.

[@sharonbryant2384]

My brother and his family lived through Katrina! The storm was bad but the after effects were worse. My brother was a deep sea driver and underwater welder. He was a huge guy and he was even scared at the lawlessness. It was terrible!

[@NatPat-yj2or]

This show only scratches the surface of what really happened. I live way up in Maine and even we were PISSED. We started filling up trucks and busses with supplies, water, food, chainsaws, generators, construction tools, clothes, boxes of cash money from donations. We even contractors load up flatbeds with excavators, bulldozers and backhoes, with dump trucks, wood chippers, cranes, we sent boats, and we sent national guard units. They all drove nonstop for 2 days to get there. They were turned away by Louisiana state police and other police. Our national guard units who traveled with New Hampshire and Massachusetts national guard went to the front of the convoys that had thousands of volunteers trying to get in there, and told the Louisiana police if they didn't get out of the way, they would kill them all and go in there to help either way. They got out of the way REALLY fast. What were 10 cops going to do against 3,000 pissed off and heavily armed soldiers with 10,000 pissed off volunteers with trucks and machinery. There were so many people trying to prevent rescue operations and recovery. The national media was lying for 2 days, telling us everything was fine, and that they had ''dodged a bullet''. It was the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Something strange was going on. Hundreds of people were killed, thousands were r@ped, over 200 kids were kidnapped and have never been found. There were roving gangs of armed groups going around breaking into houses and stealing safes, jewelry, valuables etc, and many of them were police from the city and surrounding cities. Again, seemingly the incidents were covered up and prevented from being addressed by law enforcement in the state. The only reason things got better in the first week is because Bush had enough of the bullshit and put the military in charge and removed the authority of FEMA for the next 30 days. We will never know what really happened because it was the authorities that were using this disaster to make a lot of money. Hundreds of millions of people's possessions were stolen.

[@GingerLady57]

I haven’t been able to watch this documentary since it happened. And I live in NW Georgia! My sister was a nurse in the Air Force in 2015 stationed in Buloxi Mississippi and I went down to visit. I could not believe how much repair was still left to be done 10 years later.

[@sallyphillips9175]

I live in NW Georgia, too. Hi neighbor!

[@revendax2584]

I'm surprised by the sentiment that people are still surprised by how much still needed to be repaired. Katrina wiped out building and infrastructure that was built up over the course of several decades. Of course it's going to take a long time to rebuild.

[@lauraautry6992]

I remember this hurricane so well. Living in Mississippi not to far from Tupelo we felt a lot from the hurricane. I have family who lived in Louisiana west of New Orleans and lots of prayers were said. I blame the government local, state and federal for the lack of caring. It was disgusting.

[@timlloyd1454]

#still HERE👍👍

[@AmyLynn-88]

Still here. I remember seeing a news cast that said the buses that were evacuating people were telling them they needed to leave their pets behind. So lots of people didn't leave, because they wouldn't abandon them. I really hope that was something they changed as well. I wouldn't have left my cat. It was heartbreaking to see the lack of response.

[@lindadianesmith6013]

That has changed. Pets are now allowed. I think they learned that lesson from the Katrina disaster

[@connienunez2405]

for those that need shelter it was provide...large convention centers and university centers were opened here in Baton Rouge and Lafayette...there was a business owner in Texas with a furniture store that opened his store and warehouse for people fleeing west.. because some people didn't leave and went up in their attic because of rising water, they were trapped with no way out...some didn't make it

[@reneerollins4433]

And so many wouldn't leave their pets 😢. I would have been one of them. We would have all gone down with the ship ❤

[@TwanaJoyHildebrecht-xg4tl]

We were Sooooo Concerned and Praying Super Hard, Especially for My Aunt and Her Kids Living in the suburbs on Outskirts of New Orleans

[@cinemeleon2808]

The 2006 documentary 'When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts' by Spike Lee gives a very poignant and harrowing perspective of the experience of the most vulnerable and devastated...the lower ninth ward residents of New Orleans.

[@terribrewer2687]

Survived Katrina, as did my Grandparents survived Camille. 50 year storms. My Family has been on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in Gulfport for 150 years. Most of this video about Mississippi is my local News station. My home sits 11 miles off the Gulf of Mexico. This storm was the worst of my life time. I remember coming after Camille to see my Grandparent and My Father crying from, New Orleans to Moss Point , so bad my Mother had to drive. I didn't understand. But Katrina had pounded the Coast much the same as I remember Camille. We lost under 200 people here on the Coast. New Orleans lost 1000's. We took Cat 5 storm surge. Water 32 feet on the point of Biloxi. Everything south of the Railroad tracks ( about 3 city block) was washed into a pile at the tracks, homes cars, people who refused to leave. Washed away my children and my childhoods. All the places we loved , gone forever. Most were never rebuilt.I understood my Father tears. Took us 3 years to rebuild, 3 homes. Ours, Mom and Dad's and my rental. Lost about $100,000 between homes and business. We were insured, thank the Lord. We were in Trucking, all our contracts were washed in the Back Bay or Flooded from the Canals. Didn't have a job to go to for 30 days. 4 semi's parked and still paying drivers. Was offered 2% loans against our house by the Federal Government , got some water, Ice and MRE's we gave to the homeless for the next 2 years. Didn't want them but they threw them in the truck when we went to get ice and water. I hope I never see another storm like her. But this is the price we pay for living so close to parricide.IMO. I'm still standing on my little piece of it.

[@trith72]

I have lived in Louisiana for 52 years. Was born here. I'm on the other end of the state from New Orleans, up in the North. When Katrina hit, I had a family friend who was a truck driver and he asked me ride with him to deliver water and supplies a day or two after the flooing subsided, for security and curiosity. I was off work for a few days so I rode along...I wish I hadn't. I saw things I never wanted to see...bodies floating in water. Animals dead everywhere. Whole towns and areas destroyed and washed away with nothing left but mud and downed trees. It was horrific.....people just don't understand how bad that hurricane was, and how much damage the water and wind did. Then all the destruction afterwards from chemical leaks, disease, looting, crime, slow and inept response from state governments and local and even some federal, etc. It was really hell on earth. Credit to my fellow Louisiana natives, they bounced back and recovered. You can't keep a Louisiana man down.

[@jinnij.caiman]

Still here! I think I recommended this on the tornado video. I live in the Florida Keys, so hurricanes and tropical storms are a yearly worry. It’s the storm surge that can be extremely scary. This season is supposed to be one of the worst. We’ve already barely slipped by Beryl. It split and went right around us. Others on the main land weren’t so lucky. 🌀

[@Amandaarford83]

Oof this is a rough one. I feel for Carol on this one! I live in Arkansas so pretty far away from there but we still got a bunch of people evacuated to us and the stories from them were just horrendous. I worked as a nurse at the Red Cross Shelter for that and my heart broke for them. My neighbors actually came here after being evacuated for Katrina and never left.

[@ashleydixon4613]

Still here, Recky and Carol! I’m from central Arkansas (Little Rock metro area)-if you look at the map, AR sits directly north of LA, the two states forming a boot, MS borders us to the SE, across the Mississippi river and under TN. So of course we get Hurricane evacuees, as well as the remnants of many hurricanes that hit the Gulf. In fact, Gustav is memorable bc it stalled out, basically just parked itself directly over AR for the better part of two days, causing major flooding and stranding all the evacuees from LA and TX. Omg I remember I thought I was gonna go nuts, trapped inside listening to nonstop hard rain, wind, and creaking trees around the house…really easy trying to sleep at night, especially with the added sound of the sump pump in the basement going off every few minutes to prevent the basement from flooding! 😂 I can laugh at it now, but dealing with that, a toddler, and five shell-shocked cats…we were ready to get OUT! Regarding Katrina…my God. As I said in another comment, most of what happened was so unavoidable. I’d honeymooned in New Orleans in 1996, and remember knowing well before that that the levees were in bad shape and needed work, desperately. But as usual, everyone looked the other way and pretended it wasn’t a pressing issue…until it was. It made me so upset, and so ANGRY to see such a special place and all those people trapped in it-mostly by poverty-fall victim to the total collapse of order and failure of government, from the top down.

[@angelado3]

60 miles north of Gulfport, MS, my first hurricane and I NEVER want to go through another one. No electricity for 2weeks, hotter and humid as hell and I'll say no land line service for 2 months. Watching this just still gives me chills !

[@mariandenk1210]

I had a seventeen year career in federal disaster response and recovery. The American Red Cross sets up mass shelters and provides meals. Meanwhile, as soon as the President declares an area a federal disaster area, Federal, State, and County governments come together to respond to the victim’s needs. Assistance is provided mainly in the form of Housing repairs or limited replacement grants, rental assistance, low interest business and personal loans, personal property grants, medical and funeral assistance. Depending on resources, other agencies may be involved in the provision of help. I hope this eases your minds if just a tiny bit, however, this process often falls short of meeting public expectations. It is not a well oiled machine due to the complexity of coordinating the delivery of assistance with all players involved within the confines of the law. Sadly, disaster victims seldom recover close to what they lost.

[@timlloyd1454]

Dont usually like the tornado and hurricane vids as i been there done it been through a tornado NOT fun but don't have hurricanes here so here i am even though its a long one much LOVE FAM😊😊👍👍

[@DiannaWright-j1j]

Reporters, and regular folks filmed from room balconies, and windows. Traffic cameras also got some footage for awhile.

[@MiiDione]

Thank you for reacting to this. It was tough for everyone in the city to experience this, whether you evacuated or you had to or chose to stay. I went out to the club that Friday night and was awakened by my dad at 9am saying WE HAVE TO LEAVE NOW. We were on the road to Houston, TX and it took us 18 hours to get there. Seeing all of that unfold on the news, while in TX, was absolutely devastating. We were mad, upset, sad and worried just like yall. But, people in New Orleans and surrounding areas are really resilient people. You said you would choose a tornado over a hurricane. I have to respectfully disagree. You can prep for hurricanes and I think Katrina showed us it's important to highly consider leaving the city. You can prep and leave two or three days before. Even if you have to bum a ride from someone to get out 🤷🏾‍♀️. You can't prepare for a tornado unless you have a bunker.

[@steelersx6]

my mom lives in florida and this is a unfortunate yearly fear.

[@theirishslyeyes]

I live in SC, and was a coordinator at an animal shelter when this happened. We were contacted, asking if we could take in animals from Katrina. We opened our doors, and spent weeks tracking down owners. We assured them that we would house all of their animals until they could take them back. Many chose to surrender their animals, because they didn't know when or if they would be able to claim them (of those, all were adopted out). We fostered out the rest, and all of the owners that were able to eventually be reunited, were ❤ It amazed me that our services were request so many states away, but we were very happy to help and open our doors and hearts to help.

[@rondajones5289]

Still here and remembering 😢

[@allibrown8960]

This all happened right around my 31st birthday, which I spent praying fervently for friends who I knew in these areas. One of my friends evacuated and came to stay with me for a few days. It was a really difficult time. Still here, halfway.

[@WestTXRedneck1972]

I worked with a young man who was one of many Hurricane Katrina displacees. He lived with another guy I worked with that was a Preacher at a church at the time as well. Just FYI, when they were saying 160 mph winds, it's 257.5 kph in y'all's terms. I remember being in Mississippi, I think, a 6 months afterwards and you could still see tons of devastation around.

[@conradpfalzgraf]

Lifetime resident of NOLA ,19 years later and seems like yesterday. We still get flashbacks, my daughter, now in her 30s can't stand the sound of helicopters. But, we're still here! Personally my list goes back to hurricane Betsy, Camille, and all since.

[@wanir]

#800 👍🏼🤗 I used to live in New Orleans and went through Katrina 🌀😢 I lost family to the flood waters and sicknesses afterwards. I've been separated from my family ever since! We're spread across the U.S😢

[@ThePhillyspade]

Every region in the US has its on specific natural weather events; droughts wildfires and earthquakes out west, blizzards and nor’easters back east, hurricanes and heat waves down south, tornadoes in the Midwest etc. except for the Pacific Northwest and that damn volcano we rotate during the year for our turn at disasters 😅

[@cherylfrady4602]

Still here. Remember New Orleans is BELOW sea level, By 3-5 feet. When the dam (levies) burst on top of the already flooded area.

[@kelliefish6259]

❤ from CALIFORNIA.

[@catherinebenton3637]

I housed my best friend for a month. That’s how long it took to even know she had a home. They were making plans to move to our town.

[@micheleflanagan5052]

Katrina was the perfect disaster on every level. This made me angry! I don't understand how they could do that to people?

[@JoshuaRoberts-kingalphawolf]

The government in Louisiana at the time was corrupt as hell. That is my way of putting it!

[@kathleenbrooks6677]

That's because president Bush. Wanted to find Katrina and bring her to justice ⚖️ 😅 because intelligence reported the hurricane had ties to al-qaeda.

[@sofyuchiha9]

@@JoshuaRoberts-kingalphawolf Well they were run by democrats. The disaster was imminent.

[@Wombocombod]

still here! for context, the highest windspeeds recorded were 175 mph, which is about 280 kmh

[@MariJeanMelissa]

Update: SW Florida. Still without power but we made it through Helene. She turned out to have the 3rd highest storm surge in history and highest since 1921 - over 100 years. There are many boats now sitting on lawns or in parking lots. It's been an easy year. Debbie earlier in the summer brought 18" of rain in a few hours and lots of residual flooding - we were stuck for 5 days. Then nothing else until Helene, but now there is already another system forming we will have to look at for mid-next week they are saying. Hope we have power by then. I guess we are having a late season this year. Anyway, our family is 5th generation SW Florida and despite weather, I think it is the best place on earth.

[@tammywebber2798]

I'll never forget this. Such a sad time. The people of New Orleans were so let down by our government. The things that happened at the superdome were so sad should've never happened. Hope and pray to God never again

[@helenwilliams7065]

In 1974 I was at the U.of Miami in a climatology class. The prof discussed the problem with New Orleans being below sea level, an antiquated and poorly maintained levee system, and historically corrupt politicians mishandling city funds. He said that some day a hurricane would cause the levees to fail and there would be loss of life and astronomically expensive rebuilding.

[@timlloyd1454]

That would be 127 kilometers per hour 👍👍yes i had to look it up too😂😂👍👍

[@epongeverte]

I helped with hurricane Katrina relief. It was heartbreaking. Many people developed PTSD afterwards. I was lucky not to, but there was some really messed up stuff. Large chunks of New Orleans looked like a zombie movie. It will stick with me forever.

[@KhenoronhkhwaJesusIs]

Look at the Satellite footage of Hurricane Helene just recently (September 2024). Look at how Large this Hurricane is as the Satellite shows while taken from space.

[@aggravatedHart]

I remember seeing this and Bush saying that and I was so angry. I wish I was in a position to go and help. Not that I would have been allowed to! They were stopping people from going in to rescue in a lot of places and keeping people from leaving too. This incident is when I realized we are all on our own. You can’t rely on the government to do what they are paid to do. You have to be ready to help yourself, the ones you love and your neighbors.

[@LazyDaze86]

One thing many news sources don't touch on is part of the reason help and rescue came so slow, and it's sad, was because people were shooting at Coast Guard and Police rescue helicopters. Many people made rescue very hard. I lost so much in Katrina.

[@imfirehawk72]

I love these long ones. I feel like I am sitting at the table with you having a conversation.

[@TexasRose50]

I watched all the way to the end. At that time, I remember hearing that a helicopter from Canada was the first one to start recueing people from their rooftops. There was much uproar that the mayor didn't hire people to drive school busses with evacuees our of NO. But, one young man stole a school bus and loaded it with people and drove all the way to Houston Texas. I don't believe he was ever charged with a crime. As he shouldn't have been! He saved a lot if people. There was a hurricane worse than Katrina. Back in 1900. A hurricane hit Galveston Texas and 6,000 people lost their lives. That's a good one to watch. Anyway, glad ya"ll watched this one. Take care.

[@kate2create738]

I also heard someone in charge locally ordered the buses to be set to the side when the hurricane was unfolding, and that the majority of them were damaged from the flooding. Hence why those buses never arrived to help the recover effort.

[@TexasRose50]

@kate2create738 they didnt have any foresight. They knew it was coming. They knew there were people that needed help being evacuated. They should have thought about that days before. As my husband always said, if you fail to plan, then you plan to fail. Anyway, that's in the past. But a good lesson to remember. That goes for everyone everywhere. It doesn't hurt to learn from people's mistakes.

[@Amandaarford83]

@@TexasRose50 I think as soon as rhat Canadian helicopter was seen we should have been saying thank you to our neighbors to the north 🇨🇦🇨🇦 Instead of Initially telling them to essential (get off my lawn) I had again politics get involved.