Posted on 08/22/2015 8:27:01 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Photographer Mario Tama revisits areas of Louisiana that were devastated by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. At least 1,833 people died in the hurricane and subsequent floods.
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Is that something like Kwami Kilpatrick in Detroit, Sheila Dixon in Baltimore, Marion Barry in Washington DC, Jesse Jackson, Jr, Alcee Hastings, or Detroit City Council member Monica Conyers ?
The news media always wants to beat this dead horse.
The hurricane named Katrina has long since fizzled out.
New Orleans is so corrupt, that they haven’t got it together yet.
I left the area three days after the storm, spent time in a Red Cross shelter, under armed National Guardsmen from out of state, and then, by the Red Cross, was relocated to the middle of Louisiana, from where you read this, today.
I haven’t been back ... don’t want to go back ... ain’t got no reason to go back!
Pretty much, but you left out Rep William Jefferson in NOLA.
All soon to be joined by John Wiley Price in Dallas.
Rep William Jefferson kept his $100,000 in the freezer.
New Orleans is mostly below sea level. Much of the flooding was due to the lack of flood gates at the Lake Pontchartrain end of the outflow canals. When the storm surge came, it overwhelmed the outflow canal walls and flooded parts of the city. Afterwords, “W” and the Corps of Engineers bypassed the local,city and state politics and built “Temporary” flood gates where they needed to be. If the systems are operating properly, Katrina type flooding will not occur again.
The outflow canals are used to dispose of rainwater in the below sea level city.
***STOP CALLING IT SUPERSTORM. ***
Agreed! Sandy was a wide slow storm barely above a tropical storm rating. It went up the East coast, and turned inland when the tide was at it’s highest, and two Blue Northers were barreling toward the most populated area of New York City. It was not a “superstorm”.
But then, I remember when the local weather chick was awed by the first El Nino back in the mid 1980s. You would have thought the world had come to an end. The El Nino storm was 700 miles from us but she still looked at the camera with a TERRIFIED look on her face and said...”The question that is on everyone’s lips...IS THIS EL NINO!?”
I wanted to throw a boot through the TV.
“The one thing that surprises me in all the before and after pics is that when homes are rebuilt, they all seem to be the SAME elevation above ground as before.”
You would think. On top of that, New Orleans is, on average, 6 ft. below sea level. Swamps were pumped to build parts of New Orleans way back when, which caused further sinking. Controversial, but one wonders if some areas should have been rebuilt at all or built at all in the first place to this day.
Some areas need to be pumped from rainfall.
Are they taking up a collection? I might contribute.
make that “light wind” and you’ll have it.
I would be happy to help them pack and I know a lot of guys with pick-ups that would move them for free!
Sheila Jackson Lee has to be sorely upset about NOLA doing this. After all, these are now “her people”!
Nothing looks different. Still looks like a slum.
Kirkwood, it is you who is lacking a clue. I have family in Gulfport. I know how Mississippi was affected.
I was just on the coast and as you know it’s gone 90% from ocean springs to Waveland back to the tracks except for higher land around pass christian
And only rebuilt now 10 years later maybe 10-15% and that generous
St Bernard’s is depopulated and likely to stay that way
The crap parts of NOLA ditto but for different reasons
The media focused on NOLA cause the victims are mostly black
They closed down all the animal savagery and focused on Bush and the helpless like Lootie
Katrina was slow
Camille which I was in was a bitch of a storm but moved fast
If the govt run crap in Industrial canal and the Lake had held it would been non story in NOLA
Notice today all new stuff is 12 foot off ground
Codes or insurance?
Kirkwood is correct. 63% of damages paid out were in Louisiana. 34% of the damage was in Mississippi. The coast of Mississippi was devastated, no doubt, but by far the most damage was in Louisiana, mostly from the flood waters.
“LA. Was hit for poor engineering.. The hurricane never touched its shores..
We all know the rest (but teaching to the choir)..”
Actually it did. It’s true that most of the damage was due to the failure of the levees but Katrina did hit the coast of Louisiana, crossing Plaquemines parish before hitting the Mississippi coast.
Codes or insurance?”
Some friends who rebuilt in Galveston after Ike don’t have insurance on their new structure and know they are totally on their own the next time around. We lost most of our roof and had other pretty extensive damage following Ike and we are 45 miles inland. FEMA inspector who was from Ohio announced that we wouldn’t have lost our roof if we had had “hurricane proof shingles”. Another brilliant statement from a government employee!!!
One of the reasons we like Pass Christian is because it’s not all that well known. The new structures going up are too modern and don’t reflect the southern heritage - just part of our culture that probably won’t ever return.
New Orleans had had numerous false-alarm evacuations in the years prior to Katrina. These were always traffic nightmares. A normally one-hour commute to Baton Rouge on I-10 could easily turn into 12 hours.
I remember sitting in my car in 4 lanes of northbound gridlock, staring at 4
totally empty southbound lanes, and being furious that nobody in New Orleans or the Governor’s office could see the obvious solution.
That year, enough people complained, and Blanco and the highway cops finally devised the so- called Contra Flow plan. Seven of the eight lanes would be designated northbound, and only emergency vehicles could use the southbound lanes. Highway cops were stationed at the ramps to direct.
Contra Flow was implemented in the nick of time, IIRC just a few months before Katrina. Without it thousands more may have died.
Waveland Mississippi experienced a 40 foot high storm surge, I heard. The debris field was 12 miles inland.
I remember hearing about a guy whose house was knocked down around him; wind and water picked him up and hurled him into a tree, where he straddled and hung on for hours. He was eventually taken to hospital buck naked. His inner thighs, arms, and genitals, where he’d clung to the tree, looked like raw hamburger.
I drove around Waveland 6months later. Stone mansions along the beach were gone; their wealthy owners were living in tents. One of the few surviving trees had a treehouse with a family living in it.
We saw an evening gown, a man’s suit, and some silk draperies ghoulishly twisted and stuck in some tree limbs, about 20 feet up, left there by the storm surge. Almost like an elegant ball had been interrupted.
A few streets over, we saw somebody’s lot with the house gone. There was a beautiful piece of Limoges china propped up with a brick, and a handwritten sign that said, “This is what Katrina left us.”
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