Where were you 1 yr. ago?

[Benzadmiral]

If Hurricane Katrina affected you directly, where were you one year ago today?

Three hundred sixty-five days ago, at this hour (7:25 am CDT), I was at the wheel of the C230. Fleeing, with Miss Linda and our three cats, heading roughly north and west -- somewhere halfway between Erwinville, LA, and College Station, TX.

Though we didn't know it yet, for us the worst was over.

How about you?

 

[Schmoe]

Watching the news.

 

[wantin150]

Same as Schmoe but wondering about all the friends and the house I grew up in. Also, I was having a difficult time dealing with the lack of response. Like most Americans at the time, I got hooked on the coverage and couldn't tear myself away. Many a day did I have tears in my eyes because of all the pictures from "home".

 

[kkreit01]

I was taking my annual trip to ND (visit my parents). Gas was highest ever -- around $3.20/gal in these states. One stop = $70 gas. The 1700 mile (round trip) broke the bank...

 

[97f150]

I was watching the news at my dads house in Huntsville Alabama after burying my grandfather the day before.

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

Counting Pablo's posts.

 

[Pete C.]

In Starkville Miss. Moving the daughters stuff to MSU.

 

[9296D21B14]

In my house with my wife and the six dogs fifty miles west of the eventual eye wall track. Job duties prevented bugging out. At 6:30am I felt the thud from the first and largest white oak tree to go down on the north side of the house. Seven more would go over before the winds lessened. Watched the storm through the large picture window in the master bath facing away from wind's direction for several hours. Wondered if the roof would hold. It did. That evening I saw my first real sunset in over twenty five years from that same window as the treeline to the west was completely gone replaced by the true horizon. Said a prayer of thanksgiving and cranked up the generator.

 

[obbop]

Hunkering down in my little non-sod shanty on the plains.....

 

[Master ACiD]

sitting in my house watching cable tv while my 22,000 watt generator runs in the backyard powering my a/c.

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

I'm a news junkie. Couldn't have picked a better time to get the big "V". Spent the next 6 days in a row watching the news.

Don't laugh.

 

[schwartr88]

In anatomy lab checking out cow brains.

 

[BrianWC]

Watching the news. Wondering when I would be sent to help. Way up in Shreveport I was safe. We got a sprinkle. Rita did pass right over about 30 days later, though. It made sure to spread the wealth.

If anyone's interested, here's a thread I started saabcentral just before Katrina hit on thru a bit after the storm.

http://www.saabcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57528&highlight=katrina

I ended up being sent over the river here to Barksdale to help with the FEMA distribution center set up there. At any one time we had 800 trucks coming in/out while B-52s landed just outside the gate. Pretty crazy.

A big thanks goes out to all of y'all who helped in any way. Money (even tax dollars), thoughts, prayers.......

 

[Cutehumor]

I was on BITOG

 

[Thermactor]

worriedly filling up my gas tank and contributing to the demand-driven price spike

 

[thooks]

Watching the news in my home, and making sure I had everything hunkered down.


I also had been to the store to get bread, milk, 29 cases of water, 16 5-gallon gas cans and filled them up, peanut butter, mayonaise, bologna, jelly, pickles, mustard, vienna sausages, ice cream, pop sicles, corn dogs, french fries, batteries, candles, kerosene, flash lights, and 32 more cases of water.


Isn't that what everybody else was doing?

 

[Dominic]

Diessecting eyeballs and studying madly for finals and wondering why so many people in Louisiana didn't simply start walking days before when they knew it was coming. :/ Im a southerner, and I know better than to stickout a Hurricane.

 

[BrianWC]

Not to defend anything they did, but NOLA people have been evacuated time and time again for false alarms. Someone cried wolf too many times.