the Weather Channel has stuff just about all day and tonight. Still anabsolutely unbelievable event in so many of our lives.
For anybody interested in Katrina`s 5th anniversary
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I was at home in central Ms.. Went without power a couple of days. My company was in a position to help with recovery so we work 30 of the 31 days getting supplies and equipment to the coastal areas of Mississippi and Louisianna. Had refugees from La in our home town and my carport was full of their belongings for two months.
By the time it made it up to Vegas it wasn't much more than a really strong thunderstorm.
We slammed down Keystone lites all day, played tackle football in the small pond that developed behind my apartment in Academy Village, and called over some girls that night to finish things off.
I was exhausted and hungover for 2 days.
We slammed down Keystone lites all day, played tackle football in the small pond that developed behind my apartment in Academy Village, and called over some girls that night to finish things off.
I was exhausted and hungover for 2 days.
Was living in NE Jackson back then, and I logged onto the Sixpack at 5:30 AM that Monday morning. Saw where jsireland posted that you better gas up because power was going to be out and there'd be little to no gas for the next month or so.
So, I took all my vehicles and all my gas tanks, and filled them up to the gills. Then, I took all the lawn furniture and toys and put them out behind the shed (so they wouldn't get blown through a window into the house), and got the cars into the garage.
When the storm came through, I was worried about our pine trees snapping and smashing through our roof. Fortunately, we just had a lot of branches fall into the yard, which was relatively easy to clean up. For the next week or so, I managed to get around by riding my bicycle. When we had to go somewhere in the car, we didn't have to wait in a mile long line desperately hoping we'd get a couple of gallons of gas.
In a stroke of fortune, our house was one of the few homes in the Jackson area to never lose power. We had all kinds of people coming over to wash clothes and sit in the air conditioning that week.
Sixpack, thank you for your public service and for making life after Katrina just a little bit easier for one of your regulars.
So, I took all my vehicles and all my gas tanks, and filled them up to the gills. Then, I took all the lawn furniture and toys and put them out behind the shed (so they wouldn't get blown through a window into the house), and got the cars into the garage.
When the storm came through, I was worried about our pine trees snapping and smashing through our roof. Fortunately, we just had a lot of branches fall into the yard, which was relatively easy to clean up. For the next week or so, I managed to get around by riding my bicycle. When we had to go somewhere in the car, we didn't have to wait in a mile long line desperately hoping we'd get a couple of gallons of gas.
In a stroke of fortune, our house was one of the few homes in the Jackson area to never lose power. We had all kinds of people coming over to wash clothes and sit in the air conditioning that week.
Sixpack, thank you for your public service and for making life after Katrina just a little bit easier for one of your regulars.
Drankin County. I'd been through all the other hurricanes and tropical storms that had passed over. I thought nothing of Katrina before it hit.
I was completely unprepared. The days that went buy with no electricity, gasoline, or communications seemed like a bad dream or movie. It felt like a preview of a real apocalypse.
Even more horrible was that as bad as it was in where I live, it was no comparison to the absolute hell that went on farther south.
I was completely unprepared. The days that went buy with no electricity, gasoline, or communications seemed like a bad dream or movie. It felt like a preview of a real apocalypse.
Even more horrible was that as bad as it was in where I live, it was no comparison to the absolute hell that went on farther south.
the mods allowing us to post info during weather events has produced the bestreports available on several occasions.
it was still a category 1 hurricane when the eye passed through Jackson. I lived in a pretty wooded neighborhood so we were without power for a little over a week. I took all the food I had JUST bought at Sams 2-3 days before out of my deep freeze and drove it down to the coliseum for all the refugees from the coast and down south. Made me feel like I helped at least a little...
2 1/2 fee of water in the house. We waded out of the house, my son carrying our old blind, deaf dog. He was carrying his cell phone in his mouth (my son, not the dog) and it got wet and shocked him though his teeth all the way to higher ground. We are sheltered by slight hills that guard the mouth of our bayou, so we didn't get wave action. Luckily, we got only a little wind damage. I know a lot of people had trouble with insurance, but State Farm treated us ok on all our coverages. Still a very traumatic experience.
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