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A friend's account his experience of Katrina in Eastern New Orleans

[2024 - edited to substitute archive org link for now gone original]

Comments

[asienieizi.livejournal.com]

This was...I'm without words. I wanted to salute your friend and hug his Mom. Awesome courage and so many angels...

[entheos93.livejournal.com]

I didn't know the East was flooding during the storm- I thought it occurred afterwards. I also didn't know what was going on at UNO- I guess that makes sense. I was wondering that, because it seemed the entirety of Central City, Uptown, and the Ninth Ward were at the Dome, but I kept wondering, where was everybody else? Where was Gentilly and the East? Lakeshore? Of course I couldn't know who all those people at the Dome were, but I was getting info from the rescuers as to where they were coming from, so that's how I knew that.
As far as the description of mass panic as the roof started to come off the Dome, I didn't really see it that way...I thought it was pretty graceful. People were pretty much stunned as the storm went on- when the first chunk of the roof came off, you could here this massive, collective gasp. Then you could hear the hum of thousands of people praying, falling on their knees, calling out to Jesus...it was a trip. Indescribable, I'd say she's right about that. I felt like the real panic and chaos came after that, especially days later, when people became convinced they had stuck us all on a moat with the water rising around us, and planned to leave us all there to die. I guess if she left when the storm died down, the scene during was alot more intense.

[vintagelover.livejournal.com]

I passed this on to my friends who lost their home there and to others, like me, who love and appreciate your city. This is an amazing account. Thank you.