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Originally Posted by Gerald
I helped my daughter move out of of a dorm room in New Orleans 6 weeks after Katrina.
They had signs posted to please "Do Not open" the refridgerators. The water had been 3.5 feet deep on the ground floor. She said that she saw a picture on the news of her old car.....just the roof was above the water. She pushed the car to the street so the city would pick it up.
I figured I got about 7 mpg going up to Baton Rouge pulling this trailer. Took 3 of us 5 hours to pack up and load everything..... and it was a hot day. Took a tour of New Orleans on the way out....what a sight. Trash piled up along almost every street.
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katrina was nutts, i was in college living in baton rouge at the time. As a matter of fact, we had a hurricane pool party the night before landfall, and alot of people had their families staying at their dorms/apartments. All we , students , had was beer and other party favors and the evacuee's only had meats from their freezers...deer sausauges, steaks, ribs, backstraps, and so on. So in a time of crisis, we busted out the beeyas and they busted out the meats and that was probably one of the funnest college "chaperoned" parties i ever been to..lol
then the next few weeks were spent helping clean up families and friend's properties from hurricane damage.
THAT was the only time in my life that i can think of that almost all gas stations were bone dry.
07-08-2011, 11:15 PM
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