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
28 күн бұрын
Amen 🙏
@collectgemsosrs6298
27 күн бұрын
Katrina rescue dog in a Porsche lol
@wanir
26 күн бұрын
@@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
26 күн бұрын
@@kateg7298 I’m
@blessed3779
25 күн бұрын
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 🙄
@lindadianesmith6013
28 күн бұрын
To answer Carol’s question - Katrina was the biggest in our lifetime. Galveston was the worst in our recorded history.
@Suprachiasmatic
28 күн бұрын
I read a book about the Galveston hurricane. Holy crap, that one seems almost otherworldly in its destruction.
@ashleydixon4613
28 күн бұрын
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
26 күн бұрын
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.
@@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.
@Amandaarford83
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
@@ashleydixon4613 I’m an Arkansan too!
@kristy143
26 күн бұрын
I have seen a lot on the Cajun Navy. I am in total awe of them. They are just amazing.
@KathyM1611
25 күн бұрын
Love the Cajun Navy, God bless them.
@jacquettawhite1287
20 күн бұрын
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.
@daleladell803
29 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
@@daleladell803 You were smart to evacuate. God bless you and your family.
@wanir
26 күн бұрын
@@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.
@mckayaitch7335
29 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
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
19 күн бұрын
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.
@shezdina7611
29 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
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!
@brendaaverett4339
28 күн бұрын
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.
@UncleBuckRodgers
29 күн бұрын
❤ Texas took in a lot of people during/after Katrina. Many of them never went back and have become permanent residents.
@reneerollins4433
29 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
Because of the Katrina disaster, the evacuation guidelines have been changed. Thank goodness. I wouldn’t leave my dog and cat behind either.
@henny8883
7 күн бұрын
@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
6 күн бұрын
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.
@justmeiniowa
28 күн бұрын
28:18 still here !
@bridgetpaul663
28 күн бұрын
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.
@user-fo9ep4lp5x
28 күн бұрын
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.
@brendahowell6796
28 күн бұрын
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.
@seekexplorewander
28 күн бұрын
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
29 күн бұрын
*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
28 күн бұрын
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.
@sarahsarahsarah9093
28 күн бұрын
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 ❤
@reginaldgriffin4978
28 күн бұрын
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.
@Cookie-K
28 күн бұрын
Still here and very teary-eyed because remembering this breaks my heart....Americans from all over the country felt absolutely helpless.
@srqlisa7881
29 күн бұрын
I have experienced multiple tornadoes multiple tropical storms and two hurricanes and Katrina still scares the shit out of me.
@mortimerbrewster3671
26 күн бұрын
Why does Katrina scare you? It's been over for almost 20 years.
@srqlisa7881
26 күн бұрын
@@mortimerbrewster3671 because it could happen again .
@mortimerbrewster3671
26 күн бұрын
@@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
21 күн бұрын
@@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.
@earlymorningtwilight9119
29 күн бұрын
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.
@jamie-uy8tm
19 күн бұрын
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.
@tatacousin
28 күн бұрын
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!
@theirishslyeyes
10 күн бұрын
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.
@mikedaflexta
24 күн бұрын
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
23 күн бұрын
@mikedaflexta as the wife of a vet thank you for your service and I am glad you and family are doing ok.
@mikedaflexta
23 күн бұрын
@@rina1744 Thank you. I call you all "veteran wives" People don't realize the sacrifice you guys make as well.
@rina1744
23 күн бұрын
@@mikedaflexta much appreciated my dear. Peace to you and family! 🙂
@fumesniff
29 күн бұрын
we are still rebuilding from this on missippi coast
@tauceti8060
24 күн бұрын
After almost 20 years???
28 күн бұрын
Gotta have balls of steel to stand in the way of a storm like that
@WolfsbaneHollow
28 күн бұрын
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.
@shenaniganss_4259
28 күн бұрын
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...
22 күн бұрын
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.
@randykillman6475
28 күн бұрын
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.
@rondajones5289
28 күн бұрын
Still here and remembering 😢
@henrymann8122
28 күн бұрын
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.
@RichDenman
28 күн бұрын
I appreciate you two still making yourself look nice for videos, you are an adorable pair.
@pamk2061
28 күн бұрын
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.
@petermiller4953
29 күн бұрын
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!
@intodaysepisode...
26 күн бұрын
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.
@kristy143
26 күн бұрын
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.
@minsugasmelanin.6656
28 күн бұрын
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.
@suefantastic4584
28 күн бұрын
Still here.. a Florida resident btw.. xo
@micheleflanagan5052
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
The government in Louisiana at the time was corrupt as hell. That is my way of putting it!
@kathleenbrooks6677
26 күн бұрын
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
21 күн бұрын
@@JoshuaRoberts-kingalphawolf Well they were run by democrats. The disaster was imminent.
@lindacarroll6896
28 күн бұрын
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.
@manxkin
28 күн бұрын
We were in New Orleans visiting relatives when hurricane Camille was approaching back in 1969. We packed up and headed back to Illinois.
@jinnij.caiman
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
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.
@timlloyd1454
28 күн бұрын
#still HERE👍👍
@TwanaJoyHildebrecht-xg4tl
29 күн бұрын
We were Sooooo Concerned and Praying Super Hard, Especially for My Aunt and Her Kids Living in the suburbs on Outskirts of New Orleans
@kelliefish6259
28 күн бұрын
❤ from CALIFORNIA.
@MiiDione
28 күн бұрын
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.
@hotcocoa00
28 күн бұрын
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.
@willowrosenberg20041
29 күн бұрын
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.
@angelado3
28 күн бұрын
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 !
@imfirehawk72
5 күн бұрын
I love these long ones. I feel like I am sitting at the table with you having a conversation.
@AmyLynn-88
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
That has changed. Pets are now allowed. I think they learned that lesson from the Katrina disaster
@LadyTmuzikal1
3 күн бұрын
Appreciate your reaction..never forget..❤from Louisiana
@aggravatedHart
28 күн бұрын
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.
@janetsmiley6778
29 күн бұрын
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.
@Robin52665
28 күн бұрын
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.
@cherylfrady4602
13 күн бұрын
I am an RN in Tennessee. We are about 542 miles north of New Orleans. About 6 months after Katrina hit, I was taking care of a man who was pulling people, animals and not telling what out of the water for up to a month after the hurricane. He said the water had a sheen on top and smelled like dead people and animals along with feces. He had massive open wounds all over his body that were infected with multiple types of germs and viruses. Between the infections and the PSD, he could not sleep or eat. He was septic and only lived a few days. He would talk as long as I would let him. He said even though he knew he was dying, he would do it again to save as many lives as he could. I held his hand as the hero died. RIP my friend.
@cattfink5036
28 күн бұрын
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.
@lauraautry6992
29 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
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😊😊👍👍
@kimharding2246
29 күн бұрын
Still here. You mentioned the alligators swimming through the flood waters. For a split second, you see a man aiming with a high powered rifle. That’s what he was there for. The wildlife found it easy to cruise through the streets for an easy meal. Horrifying. But, not only human life was lost, but hundreds of thousands farm animals were still locked in their pens. It was heart breaking. 😭
@Vanessa-ok3ys
24 күн бұрын
Oh my Lord 😳
@briangoss8062
28 күн бұрын
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.
@TheEmpress_0304
29 күн бұрын
Katrina was so heartbreaking to see..
@sharonbryant2384
25 күн бұрын
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!
@trith72
13 күн бұрын
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.
@TexasRose50
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
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
28 күн бұрын
@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
26 күн бұрын
@@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.
@GingerLady57
29 күн бұрын
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
25 күн бұрын
I live in NW Georgia, too. Hi neighbor!
@revendax2584
24 күн бұрын
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.
@denisekomater
24 күн бұрын
I live in Texas, and we had a large number of evacuees here that we provided shelter for. I did work at the shelter, and it was heart breaking. We provided medical care food, medication assistance. eyeglasses. and mental health. People donated clothing as most came with just a garbage bag of possessions.
@larrym.johnson9219
28 күн бұрын
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!
@allibrown8960
28 күн бұрын
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.
@JulieYoung-te5mw
28 күн бұрын
Still here !!! Thank you for this ...
@judyhorstmann6332
29 күн бұрын
Love the long videos! I wish there were more!
@judydechant9205
28 күн бұрын
Still watching! I remember this hurricane well. So so devastating 😢Best wishes from Tennessee 😊🇺🇸
@tammywebber2798
28 күн бұрын
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
@Michellefeltzer-hd4mq
28 күн бұрын
August 29th is my birthday and I can remember spending it that year watching the news, safely in Michigan. I just remember not caring about snow and ice anymore and being grateful to be so far removed from anything like this.
@kelliefish6259
27 күн бұрын
Still here. From CALIFORNIA.
@darrelllankford3014
24 күн бұрын
You saw the guitar sign. That was at the #HardRock casino. The Hard Rock had just finished being built and was scheduled to open the day Katrina hit. It was totally gutted by the water surge. The guitar sign was the only thing left.
@benjamansharer7969
25 күн бұрын
A friend of mine worked for a local news station in Indiana. She was sent to New Orleans when it was just search and recovery for those deceased from the hurricane. She spent a month there, working on everything from recovering bodies to delivering food, water and other supplies to people who ended up unable to evacuate. When she returned to Indiana and did her report, she was a changed person from everything she witnessed while in New Orleans
@connienunez2405
29 күн бұрын
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
29 күн бұрын
And so many wouldn't leave their pets 😢. I would have been one of them. We would have all gone down with the ship ❤
@user-bt9wu7wf6e
28 күн бұрын
Reporters, and regular folks filmed from room balconies, and windows. Traffic cameras also got some footage for awhile.
@JennRighter
25 күн бұрын
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.
@ksrams21
29 күн бұрын
Every person in charge, let the people down, and caused unnecessary deaths!
@shantereed
27 күн бұрын
Still here. Enjoy watching you guys. I didn’t live through this storm but a lot of people relocated to Georgia from this area after Katrina.
@elizabethchiasson1619
28 күн бұрын
I’m from south Louisiana below New Orleans and believe you me Katrina was no joke …..it was bad for weeks and weeks
@kennyrosenberger2619
27 күн бұрын
i am from Golden Meadow Louisiana. a small town 75 miles south of New Orleans. My family and I stayed for Katrina. We didn't leave because my wifes mother and sister had no way to leave so we stayed to help them. It was a rough 12 hours of high winds and rain but we were fortunate. We sustained minimal damage but others were not so lucky. We were hit directly 3 years ago by another major hurricane named Ida. we were not lucky for this one. Half our house was gone . Thank god this time we evacuated up north but were devastated when we were finally able to get back two weeks later, This storm hit on the same date as Katrina at the end of August and we didn't get power till mid December.
@waltsadventure
28 күн бұрын
Still here and watching what I saw live all over the news.
@florancechapman6481
28 күн бұрын
I'm still here. 😊 Carol, you look really nice. Your hair looks great.
@sullyhildebrand4636
20 күн бұрын
I was nine years old when Katrina hit. My family was able to evacuate about 45 minutes north of the city across Lake Ponchartrain, so we avoided the flooding but unfortunately were surrounded by tornado's. The PTSD I have when it rains almost 20 years later still surprises me; the images of the city still just as shocking. We were incredibly fortunate that we had family that could take us in in Texas for several months and that I could continue school there. Wild memories I don't think of often.
@claudiaclark6162
29 күн бұрын
Those People in that Nursing home should not have died they worried too much about partying and didn't care about the levies or even evacuating the most vulnerable. School buses sat under water which could have been used for evac
@aprilhanna9463
29 күн бұрын
I know there is Habitat for Humanity the rebuilding of homes for people who lost their house in a natural disaster. What you saw was probably Extreme makeover: Home edition.
@GregoryLouisTV
28 күн бұрын
I’m a Louisiana native. I was 14 when Katrina happened. A lot of evacuees were sent to hospitals in central and north Louisiana for medical treatment for diseases received from walking through the water, contaminated with sewage and decomposing bodies. It was so sad.
@julieangelltaylor
27 күн бұрын
I live in Austin Tx. We're approximately 500 miles away from New Orleans LA. The gross negligence was criminal. We felt helpless, heartbroken and disgusted. One thing not mentioned was that the evacuation buses and centers that took people in before the storm would not allow people to take their pets with them. Many people stayed behind with their pets, as I promise I would have with mine if would not have been able to just leave town. Also, the cemeteries in New Orleans are at or below sea level, resulting in a high water table in the soil. If a body or coffin is placed in an in-ground tomb in New Orleans, there is risk of it being water-logged or even displaced from the ground. So many people of New Orleans have used above-ground tombs and many coffins became displaced. The entire event was absolutely terrible. Some damage from Katrina is still available today such as overgrown lots and abandoned damaged buildings.
@wanir
27 күн бұрын
😮😢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
26 күн бұрын
Aw im so sorry for your loss 😢❤️
@wanir
26 күн бұрын
@@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 KZitem 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.
@NatPat-yj2or
25 күн бұрын
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.
@traetrae11
26 күн бұрын
A friend of mine back in High School moved to our area with her extended family when her family lost everything in this hurricane. Later we ended up with a few more kids that started going to our school all from that area. I live several states away but we also can get hurricanes so we understood how devastating they can be. I always prepare early for hurricane season.
@helenwilliams7065
5 күн бұрын
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.
@cynthiaalver
28 күн бұрын
I was there. 28 foot storm surge took down my apartment building. I had moved five miles inland and the building I was in came apart around me due to wind. I still love the MS Gulf Coast.
@conradpfalzgraf
26 күн бұрын
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.
@nathanmclaughlin304
27 күн бұрын
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.
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