wow, i live in Canada, and when they showed this on the news, they left out the part of you know, water rising above houses and just other details they cant show on the news, and as a Canadian i say you guys are strong to live with fears like this, and i must say those who survived are fighters and true believers for something good to come!
This storm was horrible to go through. We flooded & lost mostly everything... It definately was a life changing storm. I wouldn't wish what I went through on my worst enemy.
That was very sad. I wish that they had sent more help towards the victims. I really do. I always kept thinking about that tradgedy, and always donated as much as I could towards all of those trapped innocent people. God Bless New Orleans and her people.
Chris F... I knew him when I was in the area on business in the fall of 05. Unfortunately, the person I think youre talking about I had the pleasure of speaking with a few days before the storm about the weather. I knew he went into the stadium when the flood hit... but I never saw him again.
@ Leojmiami: Andrew was a Cat 5 at landfall. Winds were susstained at 165 pmh with gusts estimated as high as 215 MPH. That is the Cat 5 Warren is refering to. Warren: Awesome video. Hope to see you in the feild some day.
As a San Diego tourist who was stuck in the Superdome I appreciate seeing some of this original footage that I was never able to see. I do hope people realize that the vast majority of death and destruction in the city of New Orleans was caused by the Army Corps of Engineers' shoddy levees, as well as the incredibly slow response by the Feds. Maybe we've learned a bit since then. Paul Harris Author, "Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina"
For all you people that had to go through this or evacuate and your possessions had to go through it, I am terribly sorry. Honestlky, I dont know how you did it, the littlest bit of rain or wind would terrify me now beyond belief
I remember crying when I saw the headlines of an entire town of people and a man carrying a baby probably all walking towards the shelter ...that was five years back...
Im a hurricane katrina victim and this footage is very similair to what i saw in new orleans from my home before the water began to rise. I had amazing video footage of massive waves of water running up my stairs inside my house but all that footage was lost as i had to swim to higher ground. this is real shit
if u were trying to reply to my comment its where the rain and wind comes from. the hurricane winds are a result of the hurricane spinning in a circular motion. when you are in the eye of the storm, it is actually completely calm, like there was no hurricane to begin with, because there are no clouds in the eye
god. gustov is a category 5 right now. this is getting scary. i hope new orleans will be able to withstand it. my sister just moved there and into a new apartment a couple weeks ago and already she had to evacuate.
man man man... reading all these hateful comments... be very, very careful what you say about another human being with a soul... free people will not stand around too much longer and allow that... there are many elements going on in the world that points to a major change in our lives and world
Excellent video footage. I do have a request though. Could the "Storm Chaser" please remove ALL the racial and hate comments please? These video's ,I believe was meant to educate people on what was going on or does go on during a terrible storm. Thanks in Advance. A loyal viewer.
The unthinkable happened to a city surrounded by multiple bodies of water including the Mississippi River, Lake Poncatrain, and the Gulf of Mexico. Dummy you do have to worry about the water. That Led Zeppelin song "When The Levees Break" gives me the creeps.
Guess many of you weren't aware that they shut down the New Orleans Airport, Amtrak and Greyhound PRIOR to the evacuation. Many of us could not get out, whereas Australia during Cyclone Yasi increased the flights out of the area during the evacuation. In spite of this evacuation experts consider the 85-90% who did get out well above average for such disasters. Paul Harris Author, "Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina"
This video must be showing in schools ,to teach kids what mother nature could do to us. Thanks for the courage to film this film. Ojala este video se muestre en las escuelas ,enseñaria a los niños a tener respeto a la madre naturaleza y protegerse cuando sea necesario. Gracias por compartir.
8/29/2008 Gustav brewing just south of the Gulf of Mexico. No upper loft wind shear to weaken the upper level of Gustav's hurricane winds. Gulf waters very warm at 87 degrees. Governor of Mississippi telling us not to panic, but to prepare. Yeah, I'm concerned. Very concerned. And Hannah in the Atlantic heading right for Florida, too.
I remember watching the news after Katrina hit Florida and they said it might dissipate and hit mexico. I turned on the news two days later and it had winds of 180 miles an hour. I wuz like "shit" and then i realized i live in wisconsin. but it still rained because we got hit by the remnants
this doesnt normally happen with hurricanes just terrible wind that may lead to tornados. the reason why this did happen is because that place is below sea level
I don't know if it's Global Warming or not, but warm temps = warm sea water and that means Hurricanes. Frankly, I could care less except for the fact that I love my condo in Gulf Shores, AL and I hope it is not destroyed yet again....
@MrPersecutor1 They did not. Katrina was a category 1 storm coming off the Florida coast Friday night, the 26th. It meandered in the Gulf early Saturday then began to rapidly intensify Saturday afternoon. Only late Saturday night was Katrina a major hurricane and the impending fate of the Louisiana/Mississippi coast apparent. They basically had Sunday to evacuate New Orleans as the storm made landfall early Monday. Not 5-6 days. Do your homework.
I read at the time that people lost their pets because they wouldn'd let them take them on the evacuation buses. I guess now they've changed that thank God😢
Some people can't afford to ESCAPE. That's my whole point. Yes, people are responsible for their own destinies. I myself have crawled out of years of poverty and moved away and I worked HARD for it. However, years of working collections has taught me that there are people who don't have the cognitive resources to do the same and those are the ones I feel for. The problem is there's too many people who say "I can't" when it's really "I won't."
Oh you look the picture quality really bad, but because the director has delivered a bad job. The special effects are ok, no actor is the whole real boring. Did the film in the cinema or straight to DVD? Which studio made the film? Was it perhaps natural disasters for poor people?: D
why are you blaming the photographer? The storm ruined the homes, neighborhoods and city. Not him. He is only documenting what is happening. Oh, and what's a carpetbagger?
All that destruction, and to think that this is New Orleans dodging a bullet....they were only hit by the weaker side of a CAT 3 hurricane....if it stayed a 5 and hit them with the Right quadrant (like predicted at times), the story would have been 10 fold more devastating
stop thinking irene is gonna be this bad, Katrina was a category 4...Irene was a 2 and atm is now a category 1 hurricane....its gonna be fast winds and a shit load of rain get over it shit happens, just not usually to the northeast coast
@iLuvBarRefaeli Not everybody can just up and move, so it's not the peoples fault. Thanks for giving me another reason to report you though, that makes three. :)
this may look like a scene from a movie, but picture you actually being there.....would you wanna be in that situation? Its bad, Trust i experienced it.
I love that no one cares to mention how corrupt New Orleans is, which is exactly why the majority of NO lives in poverty and can't afford flood insurance and esp. why they haven't really been helped after Katrina (by the government, anyway). Would poverty be totally eradicated if NO were corruption free? No, of course not, but I do believe that poverty would be greatly decreased, and problems like Katrina aftermath would be helped more quickly.
