Posted on 08/17/2015 10:25:55 AM PDT by Cecily
Scott and Kimberly Roberts clung to each other in the attic of their clapboard home, praying the gale-force winds and rising flood water would not carry them away.
With shaking hands, they captured the moment they were hit by Hurricane Katrina – one of the fiercest storms in living memory – on a $20 camera they had bought just days before.
“I decided to film because I realised we weren’t going to be able to leave,” Mrs Roberts, 34, said. “And just in case it happened how people said it was going to happen, I wanted to capture it.
“The water almost reached the ceiling, but I wasn't afraid because I knew I could swim, but my husband couldn’t.”
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
50 years from now Katrina will still be with them.
The title should be more like, “A Decade on and Political Corruption is Still with us in New Orleans.” Katrina isn’t the issue. Socialistic, corrupt, urban, old-school Louisiana politics is.
I suppose that Cat 5 hurricane just suddenly appeared, right? You two had no idea that NOLA was below sea level? Just slipped your mind why there are levees every where?
This was clearly Bush’s fault.
Even then-mayor Ray Nagin left for East TX - Federal Inmate #32751-034.
I started to read this article and then decided that I’m not going to spend 5 more seconds on Katrina and NOLA. I’ve had enough.
I think you were told to get the hell out of there, but you were smarter than that.
I’m with you, and I wonder how Gulfport MS is fairing these days. Never a word on Gulfport. NOLA gets little sympathy from me.
The Indians told the French point blank NOT to build there.
I don’t feel sorry for those two, because they went back.
I have not gone back to the New Orleans area, and have no desire to do so. The V.A. is supposed to be building a new hospital, but that is not to start to be open unril 2016!
You lived inside a bowl that had pumps keeping the inside dry, while floating in water. The pumps stopped, the bowl filled. People lost lives, lost homes, lost their livelihoods. But, they wanted to go back to that bowl, knowing it could happen, again.
Oh, for the record, the 10th anniversary, is not official until the 29th of the month.
My cousin & I visited there probably 20 yrs. ago. We sort of enjoyed the trip. She had been “given” a “free” hotel room for a few days. We shared expenses. I paid for gasoline for the car, for all our food & admission costs to anything we did (Battle of NO river cruise, bus trip to view the sites of the city.) Of course, we visited the Quarter during the daylight. - She ended up being conned into paying a bundle for that “free” hotel room. I didn’t offer to help her on that. I had already spent a bundle in cash & credit card expense. If I hadn’t, she would have sat in that hotel room the entire time. We tipped generously & felt good about our trip. I was at least a little bit outgoing because I had traveled some in my life; she hadn’t.
I think the trip DID serve to impress on her the importance of getting down to at least a reasonable weight. What little walking we had to do made her wake up. (I couldn’t do it myself now without a month or two of physical training.)
I’m a former 20-year Cresent City resident ... the town is corrupt, corrupt and corrupt ... it’s really sad ...
It’s still with use here in Atlanta; We got a lot of the dregs that were washed out of NO and they’ve set up permanent (section 8 housing of course) shop here in Atlanta. Last time a checked (several years ago) there were still 60,000 families on public assistance that had moved here from NO after the hurricane.
Democrats + inner city black culture equals corruption...
Inner city black culture IS democrats. The social, political, economic, and more importantly Spiritual and Moral corruption that is inner city black culture was deliberately and maliciously created by socialists in the democrat party.
True - but white liberal elites get their cut...
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