10 Years Later How Did Yall Experience Hurricane Katrina?
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^shyt. that a good question.
Same thing happened in Georgia. If one of them tried to crack jokes, we'd call them a refugee
Yep I definitely remember a lot of them coming to ATL and there being a little tension in some of the High Schools. I'd just graduated but my brother was there and he'd tell me about how people from New Orleans was getting clowned and a lot of them started sticking together and began terrorizing other students..
shyt was real. I'll always have respect for Kanye West for standing up and making that statement
I think younger black people, current 20s and teens, reference Trayvon's murder as a watershed moment in awakening them to the reality of the dire position we are in here in the US, but Katrina was definitely that moment for me.
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Having close friends in new Orleans and it being a stomping ground throughout my life Katrina changed so much, even down to the people in the cities surrounding it. I post some of the the things I remember about it when I get home
so much stuff man
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Our power was out for a few days. I remember being mad looking at all the coverage. One of my black professors wrote "George Bush does not care about black people" on the white board. Classmates 
I remember this girl I worked with crying and braking down at work about the kids and babies dying.
And some of the New Orleans people coming to live in Memphis for a little while. People were cool at first and then the "they getting all the free shyt"
talk started happening 
I remember this girl I worked with crying and braking down at work about the kids and babies dying.
And some of the New Orleans people coming to live in Memphis for a little while. People were cool at first and then the "they getting all the free shyt"
talk started happening
lol my mind be elsewhere with shyt. Who knows maybe
i heard most people from New Orleans moved to Houston, Atlanta or Florida when Katrina happened. i lived in the East Coast and was really young, to remember that good. but i do remember when Kanye said that ''Bush doesn't care about Black people''.
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So yeah, I remember when they were prepping everyone about Katrina, and how they wanted people to evacuate if they could. And how the levees were a concern even before Katrina got there, and how they re assured everyone that they would hold, until they didn't.
The hurricane itself wasn't THAT bad, but when those levees broke and that water started coming in watching it from the local news and getting phone calls from friends...man it was heartbreaking. It's so crazy how it took 2 days or so for the government to assist. You have a city that's below sea level being flooded and it takes day's for you to come up with a plan of action?
From that point on it was clear that you can't depend on anything the government assures you of, nor true help. I remember talking to a friend who made it to the super dome and he was like man it smells like shyt and death here. Bodies floating in the water and people doo doo'n in the corners, throwing up and peein everywhere.
The after math was crazy too, crime here in baton rouge shoot through the roofs, our walmarts went from 24/7 to closing at 9 people were advised to protect there valuables and not leave anything out, and traffic has never recovered. Alot of BR and New Orleans nikka's was cool though so it wasn't as bad as it could have really been.
I remember talking to friends that where there that couldn't leave and people that wanted to go back that they wouldn't let return. I ended up working as a "network administrator" over some fema trailers that was setup. It was like a concentration camp man.
Alot of people just wanted to go home and check on family items and friends. This was months after the fact....I also ended up working on the road home project. It was to get people money for there homes and back into NO. Believe it or not that's STILL going on, not getting people in there homes but the money trail and what not. It really didn't start to smooth out until about 3 years ago however.
I also remember working at gamestop still part time when people got thousands of dollars from fema. Dudes would come into gamestop buy each systems games, and have bags full of shoes and new jewelry. You knew who was getting fema checks.
The hurricane itself wasn't THAT bad, but when those levees broke and that water started coming in watching it from the local news and getting phone calls from friends...man it was heartbreaking. It's so crazy how it took 2 days or so for the government to assist. You have a city that's below sea level being flooded and it takes day's for you to come up with a plan of action?
From that point on it was clear that you can't depend on anything the government assures you of, nor true help. I remember talking to a friend who made it to the super dome and he was like man it smells like shyt and death here. Bodies floating in the water and people doo doo'n in the corners, throwing up and peein everywhere.
The after math was crazy too, crime here in baton rouge shoot through the roofs, our walmarts went from 24/7 to closing at 9 people were advised to protect there valuables and not leave anything out, and traffic has never recovered. Alot of BR and New Orleans nikka's was cool though so it wasn't as bad as it could have really been.
I remember talking to friends that where there that couldn't leave and people that wanted to go back that they wouldn't let return. I ended up working as a "network administrator" over some fema trailers that was setup. It was like a concentration camp man.
Alot of people just wanted to go home and check on family items and friends. This was months after the fact....I also ended up working on the road home project. It was to get people money for there homes and back into NO. Believe it or not that's STILL going on, not getting people in there homes but the money trail and what not. It really didn't start to smooth out until about 3 years ago however.
I also remember working at gamestop still part time when people got thousands of dollars from fema. Dudes would come into gamestop buy each systems games, and have bags full of shoes and new jewelry. You knew who was getting fema checks.
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Yeah.. hear quite a few witness reports of a boom. Wouldn't surprise me if the govt blew the levees to quickly get blacks outta NO.
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