The dogs that were let loose were too big to get up on the roof. Steve (our next door neighbor)let them fen for themselves and they both made it through. He took two other dogs with him on the roof. We tore down the house and after 23 months in our own trailer, moved back into our new home on the same location,in May.
...and they are stil complaining in New Orleans. We got the worst part of it. It rages me everytime when I have listened to the news about New Orleans and all of the press they recieved in comparison. It seems as if some in these United States treats Mississippi as the armpit of the nation. Mississippi is or should be the shining example to the world. WE are survivors who stand proud to be Mississippians.
I travelled with a group to Biloxi to work on homes and will never forget the enormous amount of devastation all along the coast. I dont' think it's right though, to say the rest of the nation didn't care. When I was there the entire area was peppered with groups like mine pitching it. The volunteer sector did far far more than our Government.
Some of the best surge video I've seen. Our government really let the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and southeastern Louisiana down. I've been by that area twice since Hurricane Katrina and it's STILL a mess, two years later.
It bothered me too how so much of the news coverage was about New Orleans, when Mississippi was hit so hard. Alabama was too, especially down in Bayou La Batre and along Mobile Bay (I'd say at least a dozen houses in my neighborhood were destroyed). And you never hear about the damage Alabama took.
wow, i feel for you, i went there two weeks after Katrina hit to Waveland Mississippi and it was much worse than i imagined. the stench of death, houses completely gone, there was no word for it.
Thanks for posting this Ben. We've recently PCS'ed to Keesler AFB (hospital) which is still in pretty crappy shape. I did a CCATT mission after Katrina to evacuate the ICU and now live here. Glad you told the VP what I couldn't. Take care. -A fellow physician
just watched the video i stayed myself along with my wife and inlaws .my apt was destroyed on hudson krohn .we were able to get out and about 2 days after and everywhere i looked was just gone .but things are better now and i hope everyone who was involved is doing ok .was my first hurricane living on the coast .and i still am speechless to this day .
Awesome video sorry for your loss. I have family on the coast. My wives uncle lost everything in Bay St. Louis. My brother in law and his wife lost everything in Gulfport. To make matters worse My Uncle and Aunt as well as my cousins got hit by Hurricane Rita in Bridge City Texas just a short time afterwards.
I am the "idiot" that stayed, We NEVER expected our neighborhood to flood nor have wind damage. We made it through Camille and more recently Georges with very little damage and no flooding. The Back Bay was considered safe and it is where all the casinos were supposed to go in the event of a hurricane.
Yeah, seems goofy at 1st but seems like a combo of keeping a good disposition in a stressful situation & laughing that happens when folks are scared. Under the eves, you can tell how frightening it was for them. I'm sure they know it was dumb to stay. The devastation seen at end is the kicker, esp when the lady says everyone lost everything. Probably hadn't even really sunk in yet. Thank God they still had their lives. So many weren't so lucky, bless their souls.
State Farm and many other insurance companies refused to pay and it literally took years to get help from them. They wanted to say that they didn't cover flood even if it was from storm surge caused by the winds. They nit picked everything to keep from paying. It was very sad. To this day a lot of the Gulf Coast of MS is gone and not replaced. Gone is all the historic homes that were here when I was a child along with tons of other places. I have heart 350 people are still missing.
Shocking to see that much water within the neighborhood and all of the damage caused. The fact that this area didn't get hardly any publicity regarding the devestation is equally shocking. Would love to know now that 4 1/2 years have passed if things are re-built around this area and if things are getting back to "normal".
I took a drive to Pascagoula just a few weeks after katrina, my aunts house was literally gone. I remember seeing picture frames from the house, buried beneath debris from other houses. The trees didn't have leaves anymore, the place looked like a nuclear explosion took place
I' sorry Dr Marble, I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to Extreme Storms. I was disgusted by the fact that he called people idiots for staying. I don't know about you, but at least some of us thought it wouldn't be this bad..remember the other hurricane we were supposed to get that the weatherman and media made such a big deal of but never came?
? I haven't watched it all, but they didn't bring their dog in? :( Yeah, New Orleans got all the attention because there was so much drama there. Biloxi got it baddd, and no one was in any shape to cause drama, so we didn't make TV as much. Grrsh.
As crazy as it seems....everybody has this humor during the storm and after.... Maybe what is the little thing that kinda gets us excited about these storms... Its just the aftermath that makes these storms hell... Im from gulfport mississippi for anyone wondering
When this happened I Was between The Northwest Quadrant and the Northeast Quadrant But we were'nt at the center of the eye we were likely about 5-10 km from New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina striked us
Well I wasn't there i.e. I lived one block off of the beach 2nd Street in Gulfport, Ms. so we knew our area was going to get wiped out and we packed up what we could and drove all night winding up in Georgia. Obviously these people didn't leave. I believe that particular neighborhood is in Biloxi in an area that hadn't flooded much in the past. As for who left the dog, I don't know them.
Storm surge mostly, and rain. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is on much higher ground than New Orleans. New Orleans is actually under sea level and the Coast is above it.
I agree with Extreme Storms. People who chose to stay made an incredibly foolish and selfish decision. They end up risking not only their own lives, but the lives of others, too. Use common sense, people. When the train is coming, don't stay on the tracks!
omg i remember. we were some of the idiots who stayed too. we were doing the same thing just hanging out playing cards laughing, then it started getting scary....bad storm, it was no joke. which news anchor was it?...abernathy maybe?..she had to float out in her jacuzzi tub.
i think the problem with nola was this. people who could afford to leave, did so. those who couldn't, or didn't know how, or didn't understand how, were left. and people in charge, left. mississippi was equally or more so damaged, but fema and other emergency services, were there w/in hours. it took five days for emergency services to get to nola. in that time, people who had survived the storm died. and i don't know the reason, nor do i discount anyone's suffering. but la was forgotten
none of the hurricane shelters would allow people to bring their pets. One of my friends lost her much beloved cat. I'm sorry for her and the cat, but if she had stayed, she would be dead too. her house was completely destroyed and she's disabled. That is a very cruel thing for you to say. You don't deserve life for saying it.
um I have no idea who you are and I haven't called anyone on here an idiot so I'm sure what you are talking about. The lady does say 'we are the idiots that stay' i.e. she call herself an idiot but other than that I have no idea what you mean
The dogs that were let loose were too big to get up on the roof. Steve (our next door neighbor)let them fen for themselves and they both made it through. He took two other dogs with him on the roof. We tore down the house and after 23 months in our own trailer, moved back into our new home on the same location,in May.
...and they are stil complaining in New Orleans. We got the worst part of it. It rages me everytime when I have listened to the news about New Orleans and all of the press they recieved in comparison. It seems as if some in these United States treats Mississippi as the armpit of the nation. Mississippi is or should be the shining example to the world. WE are survivors who stand proud to be Mississippians.
I travelled with a group to Biloxi to work on homes and will never forget the enormous amount of devastation all along the coast. I dont' think it's right though, to say the rest of the nation didn't care. When I was there the entire area was peppered with groups like mine pitching it. The volunteer sector did far far more than our Government.
Some of the best surge video I've seen.
Our government really let the people of the Mississippi Gulf Coast and southeastern Louisiana down. I've been by that area twice since Hurricane Katrina and it's STILL a mess, two years later.
It bothered me too how so much of the news coverage was about New Orleans, when Mississippi was hit so hard. Alabama was too, especially down in Bayou La Batre and along Mobile Bay (I'd say at least a dozen houses in my neighborhood were destroyed). And you never hear about the damage Alabama took.
wow, i feel for you, i went there two weeks after Katrina hit to Waveland Mississippi and it was much worse than i imagined. the stench of death, houses completely gone, there was no word for it.
Thanks for posting this Ben. We've recently PCS'ed to Keesler AFB (hospital) which is still in pretty crappy shape. I did a CCATT mission after Katrina to evacuate the ICU and now live here. Glad you told the VP what I couldn't. Take care. -A fellow physician
just watched the video i stayed myself along with my wife and inlaws .my apt was destroyed on hudson krohn .we were able to get out and about 2 days after and everywhere i looked was just gone .but things are better now and i hope everyone who was involved is doing ok .was my first hurricane living on the coast .and i still am speechless to this day .
i am so sorry, this made me cry...
i lost my house that was located in new orleans during katrina. i'm so glad that you all are safe!
Awesome video sorry for your loss. I have family on the coast. My wives uncle lost everything in Bay St. Louis. My brother in law and his wife lost everything in Gulfport. To make matters worse My Uncle and Aunt as well as my cousins got hit by Hurricane Rita in Bridge City Texas just a short time afterwards.
I am the "idiot" that stayed, We NEVER expected our neighborhood to flood nor have wind damage. We made it through Camille and more recently Georges with very little damage and no flooding. The Back Bay was considered safe and it is where all the casinos were supposed to go in the event of a hurricane.
Yeah, seems goofy at 1st but seems like a combo of keeping a good disposition in a stressful situation & laughing that happens when folks are scared. Under the eves, you can tell how frightening it was for them. I'm sure they know it was dumb to stay. The devastation seen at end is the kicker, esp when the lady says everyone lost everything. Probably hadn't even really sunk in yet. Thank God they still had their lives. So many weren't so lucky, bless their souls.
State Farm and many other insurance companies refused to pay and it literally took years to get help from them. They wanted to say that they didn't cover flood even if it was from storm surge caused by the winds. They nit picked everything to keep from paying. It was very sad. To this day a lot of the Gulf Coast of MS is gone and not replaced. Gone is all the historic homes that were here when I was a child along with tons of other places. I have heart 350 people are still missing.
Shocking to see that much water within the neighborhood and all of the damage caused. The fact that this area didn't get hardly any publicity regarding the devestation is equally shocking. Would love to know now that 4 1/2 years have passed if things are re-built around this area and if things are getting back to "normal".
I took a drive to Pascagoula just a few weeks after katrina, my aunts house was literally gone. I remember seeing picture frames from the house, buried beneath debris from other houses. The trees didn't have leaves anymore, the place looked like a nuclear explosion took place
good luck to every survivor out there. i was in gulfport...and i still feel like i'm battling that storm
they both survived and are doing well last I talked to Steve.
wow this just blew me away! i cannot imagine the gut-wrenching feelings of the water rising and rising! Horrific!
Wow, this video was sad, but incredible. It was super brave for them to stay behind and shoot this. Good luck to that family.
Im in Biloxi as well....WOW...great video. Glad you are all ok. Where was this house located???
Did the dogs make it?????
hey did the dogs live?
I' sorry Dr Marble, I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to Extreme Storms. I was disgusted by the fact that he called people idiots for staying. I don't know about you, but at least some of us thought it wouldn't be this bad..remember the other hurricane we were supposed to get that the weatherman and media made such a big deal of but never came?
? I haven't watched it all, but they didn't bring their dog in? :(
Yeah, New Orleans got all the attention because there was so much drama there. Biloxi got it baddd, and no one was in any shape to cause drama, so we didn't make TV as much. Grrsh.
First time I watched this video... wow. I used to live in the Sunkist area, where was this?
did the dogs make it?
As crazy as it seems....everybody has this humor during the storm and after....
Maybe what is the little thing that kinda gets us excited about these storms...
Its just the aftermath that makes these storms hell...
Im from gulfport mississippi for anyone wondering
Very interesting video. They are lucky to have lived.
I am so sorry about this....Thank god you are okay though.
The house was in the North Haven sub-division
where exactly was thi cuz those houses look familiar
When this happened I Was between The Northwest Quadrant and the Northeast Quadrant But we were'nt at the center of the eye we were likely about 5-10 km from New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina striked us
Well I wasn't there i.e. I lived one block off of the beach 2nd Street in Gulfport, Ms. so we knew our area was going to get wiped out and we packed up what we could and drove all night winding up in Georgia. Obviously these people didn't leave. I believe that particular neighborhood is in Biloxi in an area that hadn't flooded much in the past. As for who left the dog, I don't know them.
I was in Birmingham Al when Katrina struck...
we were lucky....
Storm surge mostly, and rain. The Mississippi Gulf Coast is on much higher ground than New Orleans. New Orleans is actually under sea level and the Coast is above it.
I agree with Extreme Storms. People who chose to stay made an incredibly foolish and selfish decision. They end up risking not only their own lives, but the lives of others, too. Use common sense, people. When the train is coming, don't stay on the tracks!
omg i remember. we were some of the idiots who stayed too. we were doing the same thing just hanging out playing cards laughing, then it started getting scary....bad storm, it was no joke. which news anchor was it?...abernathy maybe?..she had to float out in her jacuzzi tub.
I'm curious to know; why do you say that?
i think the problem with nola was this. people who could afford to leave, did so. those who couldn't, or didn't know how, or didn't understand how, were left. and people in charge, left. mississippi was equally or more so damaged, but fema and other emergency services, were there w/in hours. it took five days for emergency services to get to nola. in that time, people who had survived the storm died. and i don't know the reason, nor do i discount anyone's suffering. but la was forgotten
none of the hurricane shelters would allow people to bring their pets. One of my friends lost her much beloved cat. I'm sorry for her and the cat, but if she had stayed, she would be dead too. her house was completely destroyed and she's disabled. That is a very cruel thing for you to say. You don't deserve life for saying it.
the date should of been 8-29-05,not 9-29-05
um I have no idea who you are and I haven't called anyone on here an idiot so I'm sure what you are talking about. The lady does say 'we are the idiots that stay' i.e. she call herself an idiot but other than that I have no idea what you mean
um I'm not sure what you are talkinga bout?
im too the idiot who stayed
ask Vickip01
Hurricane gutav will change that, bye bye new orleans
You make a living off of people's tragedies, then you call us idiots..nice