10 Years Later How Did Yall Experience Hurricane Katrina?
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Ineedmoney504
SOHH ICEY...WE EATIN
Real shyt. So many people told they heard a boom. And I believe it, mainly cause didn't want to flood the canal/burbon/French quarters area
I remember how N.O nikkas came down here and went on a robbing spree
they caught my homie slipping and made him come up off his brand new j's
I was cool with a few N.O cats in school, them nikkas cant fight for shyt
but they bout that gunplay tho 
they caught my homie slipping and made him come up off his brand new j's
I was cool with a few N.O cats in school, them nikkas cant fight for shyt
but they bout that gunplay tho 
I was livin in Columbus, Ohio at the time. Didn't watch much news, but I do remember a few bus loads of ppl from N.O./Mississippi comin to Columbus to relocate
Ineedmoney504
SOHH ICEY...WE EATIN
I was in 10th grade at Alcee Fortier high school.
I remember hearing about a hurricane, but if u know New Orleans u knew hurricane meant nothing really to New Orleans people at the time.
That was the first week of school, I was in the band and at the time it was huge in the city, and that year our band was crazy lol, and we had a game that Friday but it got canceled due to the hurricane
so we all were super mad about it.
I remember my big bro had just got a job in the French quarters and him not wanting to go, I didn't want to go either cause I knew how long the trip usually takes cause the traffic. But my grandmother ended up making both of us go.
So that morning me, grams, uncle, 2 lil cousins, 2 lil sisters, uncle and Aunty hop in 2 whips and head to Natchez Mississippi(got fam out there)
I remember seeing the gas stations so packed it was crazy man
So we get on the road, and the traffic is even crazier that we thought, all one point the New Orleans spill way stood still for about a hour, everybody hopped out they whips and was just chilling on they cars, the sky's ended up getting super dark and people started getting scared.
After like 12 on what is usually a 3 hour drive we finally make it to Natchez.
The night we make it they lights go off asap,
and we was without lights for 2-3 days, So we listen to the radio and chill outside all day, and the radio is making it seem like the city is being destroyed
they finally get a friend to bring over a generator, and we get some power going, we turn on the tv and see the worst visual we ever Seen, way worst they people could even imagine tbh.
My moms, pops, Aunty, cousins and 2 brothers was down there still and a bunch of friends
which we had no contact wit, and we assumed he worst off the bat and jus thought everybody was dead.
So we still going to a lot, and weeks past and we finally start getting some calls from fam who stay there
I always stayed with my grandmother, and she wanted to stay in Mississippi and not move, 1 by 1 everybody who came out there wit me left, first my big bro left and like the next week my 2 lil cousins and Lil sisters left, 
that point was the loneliest time in my life, I felt like everybody just left me 
can't front me made me stronger tho.
About week after they left I started school out there, met a lot of people from New Orleans, we all became a crew instantly, and didn't really fukk wit the people out there, and fukked all they chicks all the time and got into a lot of fights and shootouts. I ended up graduating from high school out there and this community college. Moved back to the city after that
I remember hearing about a hurricane, but if u know New Orleans u knew hurricane meant nothing really to New Orleans people at the time.
That was the first week of school, I was in the band and at the time it was huge in the city, and that year our band was crazy lol, and we had a game that Friday but it got canceled due to the hurricane
so we all were super mad about it. I remember my big bro had just got a job in the French quarters and him not wanting to go, I didn't want to go either cause I knew how long the trip usually takes cause the traffic. But my grandmother ended up making both of us go.
So that morning me, grams, uncle, 2 lil cousins, 2 lil sisters, uncle and Aunty hop in 2 whips and head to Natchez Mississippi(got fam out there)
I remember seeing the gas stations so packed it was crazy man
So we get on the road, and the traffic is even crazier that we thought, all one point the New Orleans spill way stood still for about a hour, everybody hopped out they whips and was just chilling on they cars, the sky's ended up getting super dark and people started getting scared.
After like 12 on what is usually a 3 hour drive we finally make it to Natchez.
The night we make it they lights go off asap,
and we was without lights for 2-3 days, So we listen to the radio and chill outside all day, and the radio is making it seem like the city is being destroyed they finally get a friend to bring over a generator, and we get some power going, we turn on the tv and see the worst visual we ever Seen, way worst they people could even imagine tbh.
My moms, pops, Aunty, cousins and 2 brothers was down there still and a bunch of friends
which we had no contact wit, and we assumed he worst off the bat and jus thought everybody was dead. So we still going to a lot, and weeks past and we finally start getting some calls from fam who stay there
I always stayed with my grandmother, and she wanted to stay in Mississippi and not move, 1 by 1 everybody who came out there wit me left, first my big bro left
and like the next week my 2 lil cousins and Lil sisters left, that point was the loneliest time in my life, I felt like everybody just left me can't front me made me stronger tho. About week after they left I started school out there, met a lot of people from New Orleans, we all became a crew instantly, and didn't really fukk wit the people out there, and fukked all they chicks all the time and got into a lot of fights and shootouts. I ended up graduating from high school out there and this community college. Moved back to the city after that
I couldn't believe people was relying on the government to 
them when SHTF.Media was bad too with the ism, "white people were gathering survival items in grocery store"...."black people are seen looting the grocery store".
The truth always reveals itself. It'll come out eventually
NEW ORLEANS — The despair uncorked by Hurricane Katrina 10 years ago quickly became a symbol of so much that was wrong with America — stark racial and economic inequality, government’s inaction in the face of enormous social problems, and a deep sense of vulnerability and lack of preparedness for the next disaster.
That dark moment helped propel Barack Obama into the White House because it seemed to reinforce his argument that the country deserved a better future, and that he embodied that future.
On Thursday, Obama returned to New Orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of Katrina at a newly built community center in the lower Ninth Ward and to tout the city as an example of American resilience, not just in the face Katrina, but crisis in general.
“Americans like you — the people of New Orleans . . . you’re what recovery has been all about. You’re why I’m confident that we can recover from crisis and start to move forward,” he said. “You’re the reason 13 million new jobs have been created. You’re the reason the unemployment rate fell from 10 percent to 5.3. You’re the reason that layoffs are near an all-time low.”
But Obama also recalled some of the ills exposed by Katrina: “What the storm revealed was another tragedy — one that had been brewing for decades,” he said. “New Orleans had long been plagued by structural inequality that left too many people, especially poor people of color, without good jobs or affordable health care or decent housing.”
But citizens have made an effort “to build the city as it should be,” he said. “And I’m here to say that on that larger project of a better, stronger, more just New Orleans, the progress that you have made is remarkable.”
[On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, what was lost and gained from Katrina’s fury]
For the president, the city’s recovery is a symbol of what engaged government can accomplish, and it’s a point of personal pride. “Across the board, I’ve made the recovery and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast a priority,” he said. “I made promises when I was a senator that I’d help. And I’ve kept those promises.”
Obama returns to New Orleans to remember Katrina and celebrate city’s recovery
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People are continuing to forget about the brother General Honoree
That dark moment helped propel Barack Obama into the White House because it seemed to reinforce his argument that the country deserved a better future, and that he embodied that future.
On Thursday, Obama returned to New Orleans to mark the 10th anniversary of Katrina at a newly built community center in the lower Ninth Ward and to tout the city as an example of American resilience, not just in the face Katrina, but crisis in general.
“Americans like you — the people of New Orleans . . . you’re what recovery has been all about. You’re why I’m confident that we can recover from crisis and start to move forward,” he said. “You’re the reason 13 million new jobs have been created. You’re the reason the unemployment rate fell from 10 percent to 5.3. You’re the reason that layoffs are near an all-time low.”
But Obama also recalled some of the ills exposed by Katrina: “What the storm revealed was another tragedy — one that had been brewing for decades,” he said. “New Orleans had long been plagued by structural inequality that left too many people, especially poor people of color, without good jobs or affordable health care or decent housing.”
But citizens have made an effort “to build the city as it should be,” he said. “And I’m here to say that on that larger project of a better, stronger, more just New Orleans, the progress that you have made is remarkable.”
[On Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, what was lost and gained from Katrina’s fury]
For the president, the city’s recovery is a symbol of what engaged government can accomplish, and it’s a point of personal pride. “Across the board, I’ve made the recovery and rebuilding of the Gulf Coast a priority,” he said. “I made promises when I was a senator that I’d help. And I’ve kept those promises.”
Obama returns to New Orleans to remember Katrina and celebrate city’s recovery
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People are continuing to forget about the brother General Honoree
UserNameless
Veteran
a few months afterward I was visiting some folks in an apt. complex in NC with one of my people and met an NO female who was relocated ... I chopped it up with her for a bit. .. she was so despondent and had such a flat affect... whAt really hit me was when she said she still didn't know where her family was located.
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
I remember that shyt being on the news forever
UserNameless
Veteran
been watching CBS Sunday Morning's look back on Katrina. .. well put together
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New Orleans after Katrina: A tale of two cities
"People talk about Katrina being an equal opportunity storm, [how] it didn't make a difference if you were black or white, rich or poor," Rivlin said. "But it wasn't exactly an equal storm. If you were a black homeowner, you were more than three times more likely to have lost your home in the flooding than if you were a white homeowner.
"And just like it wasn't an equal opportunity storm, it has not been an equal opportunity recovery."
Read an excerpt from Gary Rivlin's "Katrina: After the Flood"
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New Orleans after Katrina: A tale of two cities
"People talk about Katrina being an equal opportunity storm, [how] it didn't make a difference if you were black or white, rich or poor," Rivlin said. "But it wasn't exactly an equal storm. If you were a black homeowner, you were more than three times more likely to have lost your home in the flooding than if you were a white homeowner.
"And just like it wasn't an equal opportunity storm, it has not been an equal opportunity recovery."
Read an excerpt from Gary Rivlin's "Katrina: After the Flood"