Tour of Hurricane Katrina Sites in New Orleans

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[@dianapearson1771]

I was working at a factory at that time. I could wear head phones with a little radio so I could listen to the Katrina saga on a daily basis. A station I listened to covered the Katrina news only for months. Something I'll never forget. My husband had just died 2 weeks before and this city and it's people were in worse straits than I was. So, in a way, it was a comfort for my grief. My husband and I loved New Orleans. We took many long weekend visits there. That's why I love your tours so much. Thank you, Andrew.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Hi Diana. Thanks for sharing that. We will pass this on to Andrew.

[@ginmills160]

Thank you so much for sharing your story ❤

[@harifoctavio]

please remind andrew how hot he is. #eloquent fantastic work. bravo!

[@edwardsbarbara25]

Appreciate not only your tour guiding expertise but your empathy for the people and places as well

[@judithmcbride4023]

ABSOLUTELY !😉🙏❤️

[@TheEllynndaria]

We went to the Katrina Memorial on a rainy nighttime tour. It’s good to see it during the day.

[@lisakain4414]

I lived on the coast of Florida, and Hurricane Katrina was a vicious storm. We were hit with butter bands, and even that was dangerous. We lost power, trees down, homes destroyed. Thank God I only had tress branches and water damage. But the ones who was hit directly I still have goosebumps. They left those poor people it was crazy. We had people who they evacuated to Florida tell their stories that will have your jaw drop. These storms need to be respected and do not take as a joke. You never know with them.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks for sharing your experience and concern for the affected people. 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.

[@LKNardo]

I’ve grown up in the FL panhandle and after Katrina we got a lot of new students to our schools from New Orleans. A lot of people stayed as well and Pensacola has a lot of Cajun and creole influences in food, Mardi gras popularity and many other things.it’s interesting how things around New Orleans have also changed because of Katrina. Great video as always, can wait to go visit post pandemic!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Hi Laura. Thanks for watching and thank you for the insight.

[@hwk.studio]

I’m around the Crestview area, and that makes so much sense for Pcola. Even Destin and the other areas have some creole/cajun flair

[@Bombarded1n]

I bet your crime rates skyrocketed having a bunch of Eazyz running rampant our city sure the hell did so much we moved and said good bye to the southeast 😂u can have the hooliganism u want 😂 👋

[@sreyasdesai4865]

next door

[@volrath247]

The story of Katrina always intrigued me but to get the story but told by some boring history channel documentary that didn’t do justice to actually getting the quality details and stories as to what happened. I mean New Orleans as a whole is such an interesting story. Honestly this channel may be one of the best small finds I’ve ever made for myself. Love the content, the format, and how personable every guide can be simply through the video. You feel that hospitality and kindness but also trust the information cause honestly rather one was from the city or not, every one is so well versed in the history, culture, and identity of the city. Keep up the great work guys genuinely amazing what you do.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thank you, Joseph. We will. This comment made out day.

[@robertburkes4972]

I own a 1 bedroom Shotgun 1 block off Bourbon Street, now I was not in New Orleans when Katrina hit, however i hooked up my bass boat and went down a week or so later. To help people who was stranded, and worked 2 weeks or so trying to help people. Now, something that SHOCKED me! The entire French Quarter DID NOT FLOOD AT ALL! I mean not 1 inch of water got in my Shotgun! I guess those older people years ago were a hell of a lot smarter than people of today, now I mean in COMMON SMARTS!! The French Quarter was the OLD ORIGINAL NEW ORLEANS! Now one thing Katrina proved! The French Quarter, in built on GOD Made, High Ground!

[@82566]

Thank u for sharing ur experience, glad u were safe & thank u for helping others 😊

[@analezaa6306]

Andrew is an amazing guide.

[@alexandrarapp1921]

Lived there and Survive it.

[@ElephantsRock19]

God bless you! 🕊️🙏❤️

[@therealhousewifeofghosthun2849]

I think in another life I lived in NOLA. I love the city so much and I hope to live there before I die. It calls to me.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

You have many kindred spirits in this space.

[@WazigeLogica]

Yeah I might have been your neighbour that life.

[@lori3691]

My heart was broken, my soul was broken for my beloved New Orleans, but I knew it would rise again... we love it too much to abandon it.

[@MrTedkesner]

I'm so happy you drove past my house. I cried.

[@safromnc8616]

I was actually supposed to fly into NOLA the Friday prior to Katrina. I didn't get to make that trip until about a year and a half later. Many of the places & restaurants I used to hang out in (like O'Flaherty's) were gone. I stumbled across a kids brass band and I literally cried. It was the first sign of New Orleans, as I knew it, that I had seen. 2 good reads are "1 Dead in Attic" & "Nine Lives".

[@CharleneCTX]

I really miss O'Flaherty's, too. It was one of our favorite places.

[@Pomp67]

Wow really informative! Love Andrew, He is a great guide.

[@jordancameron2606]

Thank you! Missing New Orleans these days and your videos have brought a lot of enjoyment from home!

[@dextermorgan4337]

The hospital should of been revived instead of the dome

[@karisuperstar]

It was revived after the storm but the city purposefully destroyed it (again) for an excuse to build the new hospital. New Orleans is extremely corrupt. People were treated free of charge at this hospital and politicians did not like that. There’s a documentary all about it on Amazon prime called “big charity” super interesting.

[@BeatTrump]

@@karisuperstar Yes, New Orleans is indeed corrupt, including C. Ray Nagin, our vocal Katrina "Chocolate City" mayor.

[@joydavis8583]

Charity hospital was the best hospital in New Orleans I had all three my babies there

[@Mimichele78]

I understand completely why you feel that way. And I'm not trying to be argumentative or disrespectful whatsoever but I kind of think if they were somehow able to restore everything it would be the only way that somebody wouldn't have been upset. I agree with you though, when I see the dome I just remember all the horrors that were visited there but I'm sure the citizens of the city that survived because of it feel different. I was lucky enough to come to New Orleans two years after hurricane Katrina and it was such a beautiful city. Still battered beyond belief in some areas which broke my heart and completely changed me as a person. This is my spirit city and I will live there before the end of my life I'm positive❤

[@anne7441]

Excellent tour and explanation of the Katrina hurricane damage. Thank you!

[@batwood]

Thanks for this interesting take on Katrina. In 2016 we adopted NOLA as a new home and have been learning much about what went down. Our house had water up over the floor level and the X mark was still painted on the front.

[@carriemartinez2933]

Someone passed in your home during Katrina!!!? That’s so sad!!! Don’t know who they were bout they have my condolences!!!

[@crazychase98]

@@carriemartinez2933 X just means condemned. It's a universal symbol for no go for buildings

[@reignsupreme7686]

@@crazychase98 maybe so but an X was also used to identify body(bodies) found within

[@paytonmanning1109]

There likely was someone dead inside during Katrina. When there were no survivors in the house, they put an X on it.

[@crazychase98]

​@reignsupreme7686 they make an x but with in each side of the x a number would be plave such as 9 1 0. If you read it clock 9 being the date 1 being dead in side. 0 being the living in side

[@janebrady866]

Such an amazing and informative tour with heart and Soul infused

[@GazeldaS]

I can't say I enjoyed this video, but you did a great job with a terrible story. My first trip to New Orleans was in 2008 and I fell in love with the city and her people. I took a tour going from the French Quarter to Oak Alley. The tour guide drove us through one of the hard hit areas. I'll never forget seeing the numbers painted on the houses depicting the dead found within. Even today it breaks my heart. We recently had a failure similar to the levee failure you said broke through from the bottom. Two dams failed and drained two very large lakes within minutes washing everything downstream. The city of Sanford, MI was destroyed. There are several videos here on KZbin by Jason Mowbray including live video.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks for letting us all know about those videos.

[@jordanhicks5131]

Built several houses in the 9th ward with my church, picking up after Katrina like 15 years ago, was nuts to turn a corner and see a whole block gone. Nothing left but the concrete slabs and the steps leading up to nonexistent front doors. Saw the spray painted "X" on doors. Will stay with me forever.

[@annbush1826]

thank you, Jordan. The Methodist Church from Katy, Texas came to our village on the North Shore with roofers to help us. One thing not covered in the news reports was the 3 days and nights of unceasing rain so heavy it was like a bucket fof water falling. Then the hurricane swirled over us (my grandson called out "Dad, there's a circle of blue sky overhead."It was the eye,Then the winds rose and a tree crashed through our house.

[@jayburrowes3324]

Good information... I just arrived back in NYC 3hrs ago from NOLA. And was showing my kids pics of Downtown New Orleans. And after my visit I wanted to learn MORE of the storm and about life of the ppl in present time. I believe after Katrina 15 yrs ago and Covid19 New Orleans showed it STRENGTH out of all the BIGGER cities in the US of A

[@stevemcinnis1]

Your video reminded me of traveling from Tucson to Destin where my father then lived and passing through New Orleans. I lived there for several years and it is still my favorite city in the world. The first drive through along I-10 was so depressing, with so much devastation and ruin. I remember there not being an open exit off the freeway for well into Alabama, and I'll always remember the Six Flags sign. it was the next trip I took and I spent the night in New Orleans and that morning when I got up i went and grabbed coffee and sat in Jackson Square. The sun was out and there was a jazz band playing and there were people wandering around, being tourists. I remember smiling and thinking how wonderful it was that the magic was back and that slowly the Big Easy would recover. Your video brings back that day. Thank you.

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[@lorimeyers3839]

My sister had 6 months off back in 2009 and sub-rented from a gal in a neighborhood on North Rampart Street. I flew down to visit her in December. Talk about a culture shock. What an incredible place. The architecture, culture and spirit of that place was unlike anything I’ve ever seen. I can also recall all of the abandoned and condemned small houses that looked like shacks with red Xs spray painted on em. I was only 20 at the time with no real understanding of the world, so to revisit Katrina docs and vids like this really hits home. I can so vividly remember my time there. I’d love to go back.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks for sharing your experience and watching our video. We are glad you enjoyed it.

[@wrobinson1702]

I was only minimally aware of the Hurricane Katrina Memorial at the old Charity cemetery, and had wondered why it was so low profile. After viewing this video, I understand. It makes perfect sense once you realize the dedication was to occur as Gustav approached. I remember that time well-I was planning to move back to New Orleans from Texas, but hadn't yet done so. I remember as Gustavs' approach was being reported that my Texas friends and neighbors asked me if I wanted to reconsider, while my New Orleans friends were absolutely terrified that it was happening again. Thanks for clarifying this. I'm going to visit the memorial site as soon as I can.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

No problem. Glad that we helped inspire a visit to the memorial.

[@ElephantsRock19]

Thank you so much for another interesting and informative (albeit sad) video! I always learn so much, and you always keep my attention! Great job, much appreciated!

[@charlenevanwinkle2943]

Both my brother (who was killed in 1991 in Terrytown) and I were both born at Charity. It was so sad to hear that they were going to fix it up. One of the foster care families I was with as a child, there house is a block over from the 17th street floodwall (and you can see it on this photo). Such a sad time!

[@ElephantsRock19]

I liked your comment only as a way of sending a huge hug to you! I am sorry for all the sadness you've endured, but pray that God has blessed you with love and light since then! Peace! 🕊️🙏❤️

[@BeatTrump]

Are you still in New Orleans? Your foster family must have been fairly well to do in Lakeview. Were you with them long?

[@charlenevanwinkle2943]

@@BeatTrump Actually the foster family I was with at the time was in English Turn and the grandparents were in Lakeview (we were over there all the time) . No, I am no longer in New Orleans, but I do go back and visit on occasion and take my own kids back to see people and places that are meaningful to me!!

[@BeatTrump]

@@charlenevanwinkle2943 Well, best of luck to you. I hope you are enjoying your new location. Be glad you are not here now. The humidity and heat are making it unbearable to be outside. I imagine it will only get worse in the years ahead. I shall have to leave then, too!

[@patriciabordelon7981]

I wasn't affected by Katrina but Rita got me

[@mary-anneswanson8445]

I wasn't aware of the things happening in New Orleans aside from the bits of news reports I saw. I had no idea people were being killed just for trying to escape the flooding. I feel that people who want to return to the city should be helped to do so. I sure hope that they get the medical services back at Charity Hospital . A community needs it's medical services to thrive . I have the upmost respect for the courage ,the heart and the strength of those who went through ,and came/stayed to help after, the storm.

[@reignsupreme7686]

@@MaxWhiteArabiLouisiana beginning of the video explained this

[@reignsupreme7686]

@@MaxWhiteArabiLouisiana that's true as well but were they indicted and found guilty of shooting and killing those unarmed men?

[@darlenashaw785]

Another great video! Thank you so much for this. And thank you Andrew! You are awesome!

[@johnbuyers8095]

We were there just before Katrina, our friend was living half a mile from the 17th Street Canal, just the other side of the Pontchartrain Bridge. In the days after, it was possible to view on Google Earth down into the bedroom we had slept in.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

It's heartbreaking to hear about your experience. We hope your friends were safe when the hurricane hit.

[@4evermistyblu]

Great job, Andrew!!!! Very knowledgeable and respectful video.

[@samantharedden3906]

Wonderful video♥️ I agree with the comment that money should have been allocated to renovate the oldest hospital in the area Charity instead of millions going to the superdome..pretty sad.

[@chrissylovinmylife]

So true🥺

[@kaydickerson1229]

Charity was too far gone before Katrina came

[@sheilaanastas7341]

My husband and I enjoyed seeing several of your New Orleans tours. We found this one on Katrina one of your most informative- of a puzzling and tragic event. I can't walk very well now, so I will not be able to do anything much but video tours such as yours on our planned trip to New Orleans in spring 2022, God willing. You are an amazing guide, with dry wit. I also found the tours with Robi informative. I lived in Alabama for 5 years from 1958-1963 and I saw things as a child that I don't want to see again. However, these tours are supposed to keep things somewhat on an informative, but even keel. For the most part you succeed quite well at it. However, in the vodou tour, the mention of "systematic racism" is a term that has recently been shoved and hurled down peoples throats politically for any reason, when someone disagrees with anyone else-fair or not. Jim Crowe was "systematic racism", but using the term in your tours now casts a very political "birdshot" overtone, and your tours shouldn't seem political. You don't want your audience to feel that perhaps they are contributing to something against themselves. I have a great-great-uncle buried at Gettysburg Natl Cemetery, and black, brown, and pink friends who we have entertained in our homes, and Sinhalese daughters of my late pen-pal who call me "Auntie", and so the use of that particular expression hit the wrong tone with me for a vacation tour. Otherwise, I think you guys are doing a great job-including the camera person.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Hi Sheila. Thank you for your input. We always appreciate knowing how our words and our stories land with people. Thank you for watching. We are glad that are enjoying our videos overall.

[@BeatTrump]

Do come in early spring. Summer 2021 has been awfully humid & hot. Within 15 minutes out of doors, one becomes dripping wet!

[@1mochadelightable]

That hospital looks maaad spooky!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Indeed.

[@BeatTrump]

I bet it's haunted by all the gunshot victims who died there. We used to be murder capital of the world.

[@marymcguffin9370]

Amazing tour, i love the information you provide, i have alot of catching up to do, but your videos are like a little vacation 😄

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

We love hearing this. Thank you, Mary.

[@rolandwebster1778]

And THAT GAME DID give "us" hope!!! ❤️

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Ditto that.

[@macmedic892]

24:25 At the time of K, there was no lock at the end of the 17th Street Canal. It was open to the lake. That’s how storm surge water in the lake was able to push in to the canal, increasing the pressure on the walls until they failed. Coincidentally, my children used to go to Buster Bear Day Care, the precise location where the federal flood wall failed (although there were other walls on other canals that failed). The pumping station you point to wasn’t built until after K.

[@JLBREMER]

This video deserves more views. So good. That hospital looks like it should just be torn down.

[@savannahf8721]

I pass by it everyday they’ve got lights on inside and security companies guard it. So creepy

[@JLBREMER]

@@savannahf8721 Wow ! I can’t imagine what it would look like with lights.

[@BeatTrump]

@@JLBREMER It's a historic building--one that I once spent quite a bit of time in. Huey P. Long dedicated it to the poor of New Orleans. Without it, the poor would have had no health care. The interior is loaded with marble. You wouldn't want to tear it down.

[@chrissylovinmylife]

To many spirits floating around in that abandoned hospital 🏥 CREEPY☠️

[@jfinphoto4407]

Great video! I've been to New Orleans twice the past few years and have fallen in love with the city! Watching your videos is encouraging me to get out and explore more that the French Quarter/Garden District. Next trip I'm definitely taking one of your tours!

[@The_Eric_Allen]

I lived through Katrina in Biloxi Ms. It was a very rough time for the whole gulfcoast, we got the wind and y'all got the floods. Not a fun time to live by the water. I lost everything, but luckily I had insurance that really helped.

[@guadalupeeg5034]

I really enjoy your videos. You are very knowledgeable about New Orleans and its history. I love New Orleans for its authenticity. I will be going again mid May, and I can't hardly wait. Maybe I can take one of your tours. I was there 3 days before hurricane Ida hit the city.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

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[@melissajohnson2935]

I was at the super dome during Katrina. I was a EMT and working on a ambulance assigned there. I also helped evacuate charity hospital.

[@reignsupreme7686]

THANK YOU for your service

[@Alex-jb5tb]

Very interesting video. I travelled NOLA in the early 90s.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Glad that you enjoyed the video Alex. 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.

[@ughhh4790]

great video, glad you got to speak about some of the things not spoken about in the media such as the police shootings and the ''looting'' when people NEEDED those items and how you care about the loss of life. Great journalism IMO got my sub

[@geebabii1448]

Thank you for explaining well I was only 3 when Katrina hit and moved to Colorado almost going on 21 . With not too much family to explain the lil things kinda made it difficult and even to have that open conversation so I really wanna thank you I learned a lot ! New Orleans will always be my home 💙 NOLA⚜️

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[@emeraldgypsyheart]

Funny… I am a native Westbank her and learned to swim in Lake Pontchartrain… Back in the 1980s… I did not know that it was fresh water on one end and salt water on another… they stopped allowing people to swim in Lake Pontchartrain shortly after I learned how to swim… My brother was a lifeguard right around Pontchartrain beach.

[@Tamsyn12003]

I watched the Big Charity documentary. You do a fantastic job hitting the highlights of that controversy in your presentation!

[@Laceyann86]

Another great video! I remember watching the devastation from here in Australia. That hospital looks like it's out of the walking dead 😔😰

[@linaleblanc8288]

Did you see the Christmas tree in the window

[@linaleblanc8288]

It went viral I think. A lady took a photo of what looked like a lit Christmas tree. Nobody knows where it came from. Lot of spirits in Charity hospital

[@Laceyann86]

@@linaleblanc8288 oh no I didn't! Thanks I'll have to look for it 👀

[@CG37372]

Thank you for covering the Danziger Bridge Murders. Very rarely does this get covered post Katrina.

[@penar4987]

During the intro noticed the pan shot of the city was in reverse. Funny seeing a person ride their bike going in reverse.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Yes, we are reminded of this about once a month (:. We were still wet behind the ears with video production at that time.

[@Bridgez777]

HA! I was like ummmm That black car is going backwards! Is he accidentally catching a police chase on drone vid?? Then I realized everything was in reverse 😂😂😂

[@debmc2291]

I noticed the guy on the bicycle too

[@marblehead3398]

Thank you for making these videos!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Glad you like them!

[@tomsacco8175]

Approx 3 min in - as he talks about the Mississippi flowing backward, notice the "B" roll overhead video running backward! The biker in yellow was the first giveaway. Then the pickup truck drove along in reverse.

[@KOREA4K]

Thank you for this very nice video! 👍

[@82566]

Wow gave me a new understanding of what actually was left behind beyond just the news report . Thank u so much for everything I 💗ur tours

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[@82566]

@@FreeToursbyFootHQ apsoultley 😊and no thank YOU for all the hard work and information

[@CLAMYYYonYt]

I was never born when this happened so my mom told me all that she went trough and what happened glad to see this vid

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

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.

[@BonkersAboutAlice]

We were in Florida on vacation at the time. I recall an official saying onscreen that help couldn't reach the area..cut to a TV crew who were on the scene with thier own van showing the officials to be wrong..

[@annbush1826]

Katrina actually swept across Florida from east to west in 100 hours. It did millions of dollars in damage to the farm and citrus crops, then moved west growing stronger over the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico. All hurricanes move in a circular counter clockwise motion. The Hurricane made landfall at Buras, Louisiana, a tiny poor community with a large population of Vietnamese fishermen. East of the Louisiana Mississippi border, the old wooden summer homes of Pass Christian, Waveland and Bay St. Louis on the shores of the Gulf were demolished. The beach itself was vacuumed up and borne inland and only bare coral left..

[@karisuperstar]

WOW you are a super knowledgeable tour guide. Are you giving in person tours in New Orleans?

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

We are glad you enjoyed the video. Andrew is among several guides who lead tours for us currently. We 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/aero/PLpNEdLF6RWV3oDPK7SD9GOttlhvaGBsh2.

[@EugenTemba]

I grew up in East Texas and I got to know many Katrina refugees as many of them were staying in hotels or with relatives around where I lived. Around this time I also almost got killed by a Tornado that was forming above my family's house, so I bonded with many of them over experiences with the terrifying power of Nature. Ironically, it was the testimony of these people that sparked within me, a desire to move to New Orleans some day. Katrina had a big impact on me, though indirectly, I'm currently pursuing research aimed at disturbance ecology, ie how disturbances (such as Hurricanes) affect local ecosystems.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thank you for sharing this.

[@robertschmitz8036]

Agree bad things were part, and the police case was tragedy no doubt. That said, while not a political piece at least mention the officers who did help a little, or indirectly we end up hurting the most vulnerable in this beautiful city. Love these videos, excellent work Andrew, just giving a bit of perspective.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Really appreciate it. 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.

[@tylerm5774]

What a great video!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

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.

[@michaelhuff2365]

Great video as always! So, when the water isn’t flowing backwards do the bikers and joggers move forwards? Jk :) The drone footage in rewind had us giggling a bit. We love your city and visit at every chance.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Oversight on our part :). We're getting better every day. We hope you will take a tour live with us next time you are here.

[@michaelhuff2365]

@@FreeToursbyFootHQ no worries! I watch all the content here. Please continue this, i made the comment before I finished and realized the weight of the content which was powerful. Until my GF gives the okay to move to New Orleans seeing a new tour makes my day. Not to put anyone else down i must say the production quality is better than any other N.O. Informative tours. I turned on notifications.

[@reignsupreme7686]

Just rode past charity hospital last night and was telling folks that it was shut down due to Katrina.

[@geoffreyselvage1673]

Thanks for the great information.

[@shelbiyoung8572]

I lived in Louisiana during Katrina, but in New Orleans. I lived far north, but we were still effected by Katrina. New Orleans was the epicenter but the whole state was demolished. We had cars in ditches from flooding, flooding to our house. We also received numerous New Orleans refugee students to my school.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Those are some memories. I hope our video did some justice to what you experienced.

[@shelbiyoung8572]

@@FreeToursbyFootHQ It did. Going to New Orleans pre-Katrina and then post, 15 years later repairs were still going on. A lot of buildings boarded up still.

[@MiracleFound]

I was in Charity Hospital after Katrina while it still had a nursing school. Most of it was empty and closed.

[@donaldflowers6169]

I have friends that I love that went through Katrina I was so worried about them all God knew best they are all ok now but my sue passed on God has her now

[@davidv3827]

I was there a couple month's after Katrina with the Red Cross helping out the locals with food and cleaning supplies

[@fredspengeman6707]

I am coming to NOLA. Do do guided tours for groups. Thanks for these informative videos.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

We are glad you enjoyed the video Fred. We will be happy 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

[@rolandwebster1778]

I WAS THERE!!! 🎼🎶🍻😎

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

We hope our video was up to standards.

[@joydavis8583]

I can remember Katrina like it was yesterday I lost my house 🏡 and everything we had I loss a lot of friends and family members Katrina had a lot of water 💦 around us and Katrina was so scaring for me and my family the day that Katrina hit New Orleans is coming up soon and I wish I don't have live that day all over again with so much love 💞 Ms Joy from Houston Texas

[@wellardsmith3629]

Truely fascinating. Thanks.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Glad that you enjoyed the video Wellard. 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.

[@sharon-hermit]

Great video. Awesome tour guide.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Thanks again for watching Sharon! If you know of anyone else who might also enjoy these videos, please share us with them. We would really appreciate that! Thank you.

[@precisiont5188]

Why were the police trying to keep the people from evacuating?

[@danaspidle7760]

Thank you ....

[@jackieholmes8098]

Excellent video ‼️ Thank you

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

We are glad you enjoyed the video Jackie. 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.

[@Adrian-zd4cs]

This was really great! Thank you!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Adrian. Hopefully, you can check out our other virtual tours of New Orleans kzbin.info/aero/PLpNEdLF6RWV3oDPK7SD9GOttlhvaGBsh2.

[@tooalice]

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans? Really enjoyed the video. Much love from Texas. You can’t take the webbed feet off a Koon Azz, they will usually settle by water. lol Just subbed.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

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.

[@tonyd287]

Thank you for your message

[@alicejonsson7639]

Very cool. Thank you.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

You bet!

[@chilatelover]

Well done!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Glad that you enjoyed the video, Jose. 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.

[@angelasarre6537]

Thanks!

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

You are welcome, Angela. And thank you for your kind donation. We appreciate the support.

[@SnowPink90]

Well done!!👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@hardtogetnamehere]

I have often wondered if the friends I couldn’t locate after Katrina are buried there.

[@kevinmaillet4712]

I highly recommend the books The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley and Shots on the Bridge by Ronnie Greene for anyone interested in what happened during Katrina and the aftermath

[@Lookitsapanda24]

Hello! I’m a 6th grade science teacher and I’m creating a video for my class about Hurricane Katrina. May I use clips from this video to highlight NOLA after Katrina?

[@booksteer7057]

My brother's neighbor died in her house during Katrina. He had begged her to go, and he had begged her daughters to make her go, but she wouldn't listen. She was trapped in her attic when the waters rose. I don't know if she died of heatstroke or a heart attack or dehydration. She was very old. What's worse is that her daughters discovered her body weeks later. The National Guard hard marked the house as empty, but they were wrong. 🙁

[@smc130]

Tom Benson had ties to San Antonio, TX and the Saints moved their practice to San Antonio after Katrina. San Antonio campaigned to have the Saints relocate and become the San Antonio Saints! Had a nice ring to it, we thought. But it never happened. The Saints were strongly bound to New Orleans and there they stayed.

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

And we are grateful.

[@pattibelcher2659]

“NOT just New Orleans “ Slidell where I lived on the North Shore was the First Hit !!!! They “ NEVER “ talked about us !!!! I was born in New Orleans and love 💗 my city! But they got rising water 💧! Slidell got “ VERY RUSHING Water 💧 of 30 feet !

[@Braedenfish]

I edit to add 1 word. LONG. My sister and I were to fly into Miami the Friday before Katrina annihilated the Gulf Coast. We were to leave on a cruise Monday evening from the Port of Miami - by Thursday BOTH were closed by the then Cat 1 storm. The airport opened early Friday n we flew in tho the Port remained closed due to moderate damage. We hung out by the hotel pool with locals forced their by lack of power n water or damage to homes. Sunday evening sunset was beautiful. We sat on the balcony listening to the Weather Channel... praying the Port would open. I was jolted out of my chair and in front of the tv when I heard Max Mayfield say, "if u stay -be prepared with tools to break thru the roof when the water rises over your head and there is no place else to go." "This storm is going to kill people" "You need to leave.....now, before it is too late." By mid week on a GORGEOUS amenity laden cruise ship I avoided the news. MY life was magical ...while people were dying on roofs in 100 degree heat from lack of water tho surrounded by it. Back at work I ran finish construction teams following the construction of big box home improvement stores all over the country. The week after vacation I was in Idaho, but all the talk n news was of Katrina and her near 30 foot wall of water ... 175 mph winds , the casinos she brought ashore and the people she washed out to sea with entire neighborhoods. After another week I get a call from Larry, my bosses boss which was weird.... something was up..."Fil.... we need u on the Coast. It is a shit show... we gotta get supply stores open... yesterday!!!" It was truly more dramatic. I had got my son on n he ran teams too n I said only if he was my 2nd. Imma pretty tough gal but the chaos was real. We flew into Pensacola that had the closest open airport n hotel rooms (from our PA home base.) 20 of us. We checked into our hotel n began a 3 hour drive to MS. Waveland was the 1st job. An 84 Lumber hardware store. The 1st half of the drive was fine but as we got closer u started to see it . I use one word to even try to make this real to you. Godzilla. Imagine water up to the second story of where ur right now. And not lake water, river water, moving angry fast. I saw a truck in a tree. A boat on a house. A boat wedged in a drive thru. A bus on a building. A house on a building. A mobil home in a house. They had come thru with bulldozers and cleared the roads. In many places homes had been floated of foundations n landed in the road. U could drive right thru someones life. ..look in the kitchen on left...bedroom on right. I will never forget the happy floral wallpaper. We were going to the beach but u had to cross the train tracks. The power of the water had stood it up like a fence. U look down in both directions for miles and saw whole roofs of houses all over the place like shirts on a clothesline- they'd gotten hung up as the water rushed back out to sea. We walked the empty beach for a long time before we realized it had been lined with beautiful 2 story antebellum beachfront homes. We would happen on a bathtub half buried or the sand would go solid underfoot n u sweep it away to reveal an entire granite countertop. 3 concrete steps....and nothing. Even the slabs the homes had stood upon, now buried in sand. The beachfront was nearly pristine. But the blocks between the tracks and the ocean. ... incredulous. As she slammed the homes apart with a mountainous 30 feet of water that turned the land into the ocean for miles... she pushed all the former home pieces n contents inland... n as the power relented all this "material" .... sadly too often people, and the sum of their lives were deposited in massive piles that were once lovely Coastal neighborhoods. For 2 weeks we commuted 3hours to work and 3hours back in a long snaking line of heavy traffic. Up at 3:30 to get to work by 7:30. Off at 7 to get in by 11. We ate breakfast and dinner in the trucks but still barely got 4 hours of sleep. I was in my late thirties but cried myself to sleep every night. One night I talked to my Uncle n he got to fussin like old southern men do and it saved us. He said they need to get ya'll a mobile home or trailer n put it in the parking lot. I told him they tried Fema had already started getting them all. He said he bet they hadn't got office trailers or ones out for repair or refurb. Olds folks! Next day Larry got 2 from a dealers repair lot .... one had no AC so my son n I took that one cause no one wanted it. Some guys slept in cars or truck beds. There was a tent city of contractors across the street where on old frame discount store had been washed away. For the 1st week I thought it was a parking lot. They'd built a huge 4 grill mobile kitchen hut for a guy hired to bring in a food truck on week days......also built shower rooms and toilet boxes that consisted of garbage cans. Later outhouse showed up. Our guilt was overwhelming as we had some of the few vehicles in the area n we would so locals wandering n roaming with anything with wheels out during the heat of the day trying to collect water n food n clothes n supplies. Too many had made lean toos on their property from trash n were trying to survive in an unihabitable wasteland. Often they'd stop in the store and ask where we were from thank us and cry. We let them tell us DAILY about who stayed but their house washed away, was found dead in the attic or drowned in their car. Sometimes they would pass wo stopping....pulling an empty wagon. We lived in the parking lot for months. They sent us home when hurricanes threatened and I arrived in Pittsburgh traumatized.... the neat rows of cars, erect billboards and light poles standing like soldiers made my heart race. Where were the buses in trees and 2x4s jammed into buildings like toothpicks in a cake? Such order made me nervous...(like Tom Hanks in Castaway my plush bed felt odd.) They had made WorkerS honorary Mississipians and I was happy to return to my cardboard floored trailer after each terrifying false alarm. Many of the young guys refused to return or quit entirely. One snuck away in the middle of the night, hitched a ride to Mobile with the food truck guy n bussed it home...ashamed to admit he could not cut it, the cook told us Monday. Without the food truck we lived on provisions we packed. If we came up short we'd wear plain clothes to get MREz from the Nat'l Guard. They only fed locals but we gave our food to locals if they had kids or elderly or visibly broken n needed cheering. We eventually moved to a store in Slidell LA and saw proof of new destructions. I-10 to one lane in both directions because the dedicated twin spans had been dumped in the lake. Gathered coffins lost of owners or showrooms no one knew for certain. Massive dumps. Remnants of garbage trucks n dump trucks that caught fire roadside from loads of who knows what.. Then back to our Mississipi home..... to Gulfport n Biloxi where we saw the massive casinos where they were NEVER supposed to be.... on land. The power of such a storm is incomprehensable. Cameras, video and my memory cannot do it justice. Evacuate when called to and not always wait til then. Always be your own steward.... do not wait, do not be bold, like Grandpa or brave like grandma...or ride it out cause it is smaller than the last 2. Ian became a Tropical Storm today and is forecast for rapid intensification before it hits the West Side of Florida late week. Katrina changed me. I pray b4 each storm that folks have clear judgement. I think of the folks who could have evacuated but had to be back to work "in a few days" or face retribution. Many of those are dead now. How do I kno? I hugged their family who pulled the wagon filled with water n hand outs back to the handmade shanty that was once was a 700k home after they cried the words into my shoulder....

[@MetalDEmpire]

Not rebuilding the hospital is evidence to me that LSU no longer cares about people, just money. These days, that seems to be standard operating procedures for large and wealthy groups and orgs.

[@AdventuresInMetalDetecting]

WTF! Did you intentionally put the Drone video at 3 minutes in there with the action running backwards? Or was that just a screw-up? It was kinda funny to watch the guy riding the bicycle backwards down that bike path though...

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

That was purely by accident. We did it again in our Creole Cottage video.

[@HeresWhatIHeard]

2:45 bet you didn't notice the scene while panning all the people are jogging, riding and driving backwards. What's up with that?

[@FreeToursbyFootHQ]

Yes, we've been told a few times. We were just getting our editing feet wet at that time.

[@jcismyname420]

Over a month with no power, it sucked

[@michaelhuff2365]

Does he have a cash app for tips? That tour was moving

[@andrewfarrier1937]

Hey, thank you Michael! My bank doesn’t work with Cash App, but there’s PayPal and Venmo info below each video - really appreciate you thinking of it.

[@kristalcascio942]

Me and my family had two hours to leave before Katrina hit we lived in Slidell and our other family was on the west bank and we could not get to them we took the back roads to Alabama

[@ginab3122]

What is the name of the soundtrack playing? It is very poignant and quite effective.

[@tashainjena]

How did Hurricane Rita affect the area, after Katrina? It was roughly a month later, correct?

[@4fthell]

Luckily a lot of people hadn't returned

[@terrysmith3354]

Where is that location that you’re starting off the video?