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HURRICANE KATRINA

AUGUST 29, 2005

We came back on September 14, 2005......We came home to a much different place than we left...The destruction from Katrina is unbelievable...We survived curfews, power outages, food, water and gas shortages...We lived out of ice chests and suitcases...We lived without cable, phone service, internet, commercial television and radio...We waited in line for food, water, ice, and gas...We ate MRE's and learned to appreciate a cold drink of water...We dealt with FEMA, the RED CROSS, and insurance companies...We heard the endless excuses from elected officials, from local , to national level...We spent countless hours clearing away debris and repairing storm damage...

BUT......

WE SURVIVED!!!!!

And we're slowly but surely working our way back to abnormal.......

We met National Guardsmen, Law enforcement officers, Firefighters, Electrical linemen, Tree cutters, and Animal rescuers from across the country...Relief workers from all over the country and the world came here to assist us in the monumental task of recovery...

The New Orleans, and Gulf Coast areas will never be the same, but with the help and support of the American people, WE CAN, AND WILL, RECOVER and REBUILD.....

THANK YOU AMERICA !

HURRICANE KATRINA HAS CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER. EVERYONE IN THE NEW ORLEANS AND GULF COAST AREAS HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE DESTRUCTION. AS THE WESTERN METROPOLITAN AREA SLOWLY RECOVERS AND BEGINS TO REPAIR AND REBUILD, MOST OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND POINTS EAST REMAIN, FOR THE MOST PART, UNINHABITABLE. THESE PICTURES ONLY PROVIDE A SMALL SCOPE OF THE MAGNITUDE OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY KATRINA. THOUSANDS OF HOMES AND BUILDINGS MUST BE BULLDOZED AND MAY NEVER BE REBUILT, AND MANY PEOPLE MAY NEVER RETURN. THOSE OF US WHO ARE STILL HERE AND DID NOT LOSE EVERYTHING, WILL CONTINUE TO RECOVER AND REPAIR AND REBUILD. THIS IS OUR HOME AND THERE IS NO OTHER PLACE LIKE IT IN THE WORLD. WITH LUCK, AND HELP, AND PERSEVERANCE, ONE DAY, IT WILL RESEMBLE THE PLACE THAT IT ONCE WAS. AND ALTHOUGH IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, HOPEFULLY WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER THAN IT EVER WAS.

I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO JENNIFER, FOR PUTTING US UP IN BATON ROUGE (AND PUTTING UP WITH US) THE FIRST WEEK AFTER THE STORM, AND ALSO TO "NAPPY", AND BRENDA FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY THE SECOND WEEK AFTER KATRINA. IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR OUR FRIENDS, WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD ANY PLACE TO GO.

THANK YOU

KATRINA -- 4 MONTHS LATER

REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY SEE ON THE NATIONAL NEWS ABOUT THE RECOVERY, STILL ONLY APPROXIMATELY 25% OF THE BUSINESSES IN NEW ORLEANS ARE OPEN, AND A SLIGHTLY HIGHER PERCENTAGE IS OPEN IN JEFFERSON PARISH ( METAIRIE & KENNER ). IN AN AREA WHERE MANY PLACES BEING OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY IS THE NORM, VERY FEW PLACES ARE EVEN OPEN LATE NOW. MANY BUSINESSES COULD POSSIBLY OPEN IF THERE WERE ENOUGH WORKERS TO SUPPORT THEM, BUT, THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ABLE TO LIVE HERE TO MEET THE EMPLOYMENT NEEDS. FEMA TRAILERS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND MANY PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO LIVE IN THEM ON THEIR PROPERTY WHILE THEY MAKE REPAIRS TO THEIR HOMES. BUT MANY PEOPLE THAT MAY QUALIFY FOR A FEMA TRAILER, DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY IN THEIR AREAS YET ( MAINLY NEW ORLEANS & POINTS EAST ).

8 MONTHS POST KATRINA

WE'RE STILL RECOVERING AND REBUILDING. MAYBE HALF OF THE PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED. MOST OF THE "CITY" OF NEW ORLEANS NOW HAS POWER RESTORED WITH WORKING STREETLIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS. STILL, THE SIGNS OF THE DEVASTATION ARE EVERYWHERE. MANY NEIGHBORHOODS RESEMBLE GHOST TOWNS. FLOODED CARS STILL SIT UNDER MANY OVERPASSES AND ELEVATED ROADWAYS. MANY BUSINESSES ARE STILL NOT OPEN, AND MANY OF THOSE THAT ARE OPEN, ARE OPERATING WITH SKELETON CREWS AND WITH GREATLY REDUCED HOURS OF OPERATION. HOUSES ARE STILL BEING GUTTED, WITH MANY PEOPLE LIVING IN FEMA TRAILERS. THE "SMELL", THAT ONCE WAS UNIQUE TO NEW ORLEANS, HAS BEEN "REPLACED" BY THE SMELL OF MOLD AND MILDEW. "NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RELIEF WORKERS" ARE EVERYWHERE, AND APPEAR TO HAVE TAKEN OVER( SEE BITCHIN' PAGE ). IF NOTHING ELSE.........POLITICS ARE BACK TO NORMAL!

KATRINA-----1 YEAR LATER

AUGUST 29, 2006

WELL..........HERE IT IS.......ONE YEAR AFTER THE EVENT THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES SO DRASTICALLY.......MUCH HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS......THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HAS LESS THAN HALF THE POPULATION IT DID PRE-KATRINA ( WITH JUST AS MUCH, OR MORE, CRIME AS BEFORE).......JEFFERSON PARISH ( MAINLY METAIRIE & KENNER ) HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN POPULATION......MANY BLUE ROOFS ARE STILL VISIBLE WHEREVER YOU GO IN THIS AREA......PILES OF DEBRIS ARE STILL EVERYWHERE......THE UNMISTAKEABLE SCENT OF MOLD AND MILDEW STILL PERMEATES THE THE STEAMY SUMMER AIR........."NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RELIEF WORKERS" ARE STILL MULTIPLYING LIKE RABBITS..........A FEW PLACES ARE BACK TO BEING OPEN 24 HOURS.......MOST PEOPLE ARE STILL REPAIRING THEIR HOMES...........SOME PEOPLE HAVE YET TO START ON REPAIRS........"YES WE ARE OPEN" SIGNS, AND "HELP WANTED" SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK.......NOBODY WANTS TO WORK AT MOST OF THESE JOBS BEING OFFERED BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY DOING CONSTRUCTION OR CLEAN-UP WORK.......GAS PRICES HAVE SOARED AND PROMISE TO INCREASE EVEN MORE SHOULD ANOTHER STORM EVEN APPEAR TO BE HEADED FOR THE GULF..........WORK IS STILL GOING ON TO REPAIR AND RE-ENFORCE OUR HURRICANE PROTECTION LEVEES..........FEMA TRAILERS ARE STILL BEING USED BY THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES............IT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE YEARS BEFORE MOST OF THE GULF SOUTH EVEN RESEMBLES WHAT IT USED TO LOOK LIKE.........BUT THIS IS OUR HOME, AND WE WILL STAY HERE, AND DO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO, TO RETURN TO OUR UNIQUE WAY OF LIFE.........THANK YOU AMERICA, AND TO THE WORLD, FOR KEEPING US IN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS.....WE WILL NEVER FORGET...................

FATS DOMINO'S HOUSE

"THANKS" to Coni and Karen for risking life and limb to get most of these pics !!!

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HURRICANE GUSTAV

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

LOTS OF WIND AND RAIN, BUT IT WASN'T TOO BAD....POWER WAS OUT MOST OF THE WEEK....WE WERE PREPARED THIS TIME, AND IT PAID OFF FOR US....GUSTAV HIT US WITH MINIMAL DAMAGE, ABOUT LIKE WHAT WE GET FROM TROPICAL STORM WINDS....A WEEK LATER, IKE HAD OUR POWER OUT FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS, WITH LOTS OF WIND AND RAIN, BUT NOTHING MAJOR WAS DAMAGED........

I'M GETTIN' TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT!

HURRICANE ISAAC

AUGUST 28/29, 2012

WE HAD LOTS OF RAIN AND WIND... OUR POWER WAS OUT FOR 66 HOURS, BUT WE HAD GENERATOR POWER, SO WE HAD A SMALL A/C UNIT, LIGHTS, REFRIGERATOR, AND TV.... COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE... WE HAD VERY MINIMAL DAMAGE... SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER AS I WRITE THIS.... STILL LOTS OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS NOT WORKING, SO THE OBLIVIOUS IDIOTS ARE OUT IN FULL FORCE... IT'S AMAZING, THE NUMBER OF ASSHOLES ON THE ROAD THAT JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE ROAD AND COMMON COURTESY.... OR THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A SHIT!!!! WE ARE SLOWLY RETURNING TO "ABNORMAL", AND HOPING WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN FOR A WHILE..... BUT IT'S THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LIVING IN ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE PLACES IN THE WORLD.....

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HURRICANE KATRINA AUGUST 29, 2005 We came back on September 14, 2005......We came home to a much different place than we left...The destruction from Katrina is unbelievable...We survived curfews, power outages, food, water and gas shortages...We lived out of ice chests and suitcases...We lived without cable, phone service, internet, commercial television and radio...We waited in line for food, water, ice, and gas...We ate MRE's and learned to appreciate a cold drink of water...We dealt with FEMA, the RED CROSS, and insurance companies...We heard the endless excuses from elected officials, from local , to national level...We spent countless hours clearing away debris and repairing storm damage... BUT...... WE SURVIVED!!!!! And we're slowly but surely working our way back to abnormal....... We met National Guardsmen, Law enforcement officers, Firefighters, Electrical linemen, Tree cutters, and Animal rescuers from across the country...Relief workers from all over the country and the world came here to assist us in the monumental task of recovery... The New Orleans, and Gulf Coast areas will never be the same, but with the help and support of the American people, WE CAN, AND WILL, RECOVER and REBUILD..... THANK YOU AMERICA ! HURRICANE KATRINA HAS CHANGED OUR LIVES FOREVER. EVERYONE IN THE NEW ORLEANS AND GULF COAST AREAS HAS BEEN AFFECTED BY THE DESTRUCTION. AS THE WESTERN METROPOLITAN AREA SLOWLY RECOVERS AND BEGINS TO REPAIR AND REBUILD, MOST OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND POINTS EAST REMAIN, FOR THE MOST PART, UNINHABITABLE. THESE PICTURES ONLY PROVIDE A SMALL SCOPE OF THE MAGNITUDE OF DAMAGE CAUSED BY KATRINA. THOUSANDS OF HOMES AND BUILDINGS MUST BE BULLDOZED AND MAY NEVER BE REBUILT, AND MANY PEOPLE MAY NEVER RETURN. THOSE OF US WHO ARE STILL HERE AND DID NOT LOSE EVERYTHING, WILL CONTINUE TO RECOVER AND REPAIR AND REBUILD. THIS IS OUR HOME AND THERE IS NO OTHER PLACE LIKE IT IN THE WORLD. WITH LUCK, AND HELP, AND PERSEVERANCE, ONE DAY, IT WILL RESEMBLE THE PLACE THAT IT ONCE WAS. AND ALTHOUGH IT WILL NEVER BE THE SAME, HOPEFULLY WE CAN MAKE IT BETTER THAN IT EVER WAS. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO JENNIFER, FOR PUTTING US UP IN BATON ROUGE (AND PUTTING UP WITH US) THE FIRST WEEK AFTER THE STORM, AND ALSO TO "NAPPY", AND BRENDA FOR THEIR HOSPITALITY THE SECOND WEEK AFTER KATRINA. IF IT HAD NOT BEEN FOR OUR FRIENDS, WE WOULD NOT HAVE HAD ANY PLACE TO GO. THANK YOU KATRINA -- 4 MONTHS LATER REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU MAY SEE ON THE NATIONAL NEWS ABOUT THE RECOVERY, STILL ONLY APPROXIMATELY 25% OF THE BUSINESSES IN NEW ORLEANS ARE OPEN, AND A SLIGHTLY HIGHER PERCENTAGE IS OPEN IN JEFFERSON PARISH ( METAIRIE & KENNER ). IN AN AREA WHERE MANY PLACES BEING OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY IS THE NORM, VERY FEW PLACES ARE EVEN OPEN LATE NOW. MANY BUSINESSES COULD POSSIBLY OPEN IF THERE WERE ENOUGH WORKERS TO SUPPORT THEM, BUT, THERE ARE NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE ABLE TO LIVE HERE TO MEET THE EMPLOYMENT NEEDS. FEMA TRAILERS ARE EVERYWHERE, AND MANY PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO LIVE IN THEM ON THEIR PROPERTY WHILE THEY MAKE REPAIRS TO THEIR HOMES. BUT MANY PEOPLE THAT MAY QUALIFY FOR A FEMA TRAILER, DON'T HAVE ELECTRICITY IN THEIR AREAS YET ( MAINLY NEW ORLEANS & POINTS EAST ). 8 MONTHS POST KATRINA WE'RE STILL RECOVERING AND REBUILDING. MAYBE HALF OF THE PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED. MOST OF THE "CITY" OF NEW ORLEANS NOW HAS POWER RESTORED WITH WORKING STREETLIGHTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNALS. STILL, THE SIGNS OF THE DEVASTATION ARE EVERYWHERE. MANY NEIGHBORHOODS RESEMBLE GHOST TOWNS. FLOODED CARS STILL SIT UNDER MANY OVERPASSES AND ELEVATED ROADWAYS. MANY BUSINESSES ARE STILL NOT OPEN, AND MANY OF THOSE THAT ARE OPEN, ARE OPERATING WITH SKELETON CREWS AND WITH GREATLY REDUCED HOURS OF OPERATION. HOUSES ARE STILL BEING GUTTED, WITH MANY PEOPLE LIVING IN FEMA TRAILERS. THE "SMELL", THAT ONCE WAS UNIQUE TO NEW ORLEANS, HAS BEEN "REPLACED" BY THE SMELL OF MOLD AND MILDEW. "NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RELIEF WORKERS" ARE EVERYWHERE, AND APPEAR TO HAVE TAKEN OVER( SEE BITCHIN' PAGE ). IF NOTHING ELSE.........POLITICS ARE BACK TO NORMAL! KATRINA-----1 YEAR LATER AUGUST 29, 2006 WELL..........HERE IT IS.......ONE YEAR AFTER THE EVENT THAT CHANGED OUR LIVES SO DRASTICALLY.......MUCH HAS HAPPENED IN THE LAST 12 MONTHS......THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HAS LESS THAN HALF THE POPULATION IT DID PRE-KATRINA ( WITH JUST AS MUCH, OR MORE, CRIME AS BEFORE).......JEFFERSON PARISH ( MAINLY METAIRIE & KENNER ) HAS MORE THAN DOUBLED IN POPULATION......MANY BLUE ROOFS ARE STILL VISIBLE WHEREVER YOU GO IN THIS AREA......PILES OF DEBRIS ARE STILL EVERYWHERE......THE UNMISTAKEABLE SCENT OF MOLD AND MILDEW STILL PERMEATES THE THE STEAMY SUMMER AIR........."NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING RELIEF WORKERS" ARE STILL MULTIPLYING LIKE RABBITS..........A FEW PLACES ARE BACK TO BEING OPEN 24 HOURS.......MOST PEOPLE ARE STILL REPAIRING THEIR HOMES...........SOME PEOPLE HAVE YET TO START ON REPAIRS........"YES WE ARE OPEN" SIGNS, AND "HELP WANTED" SIGNS ARE EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK.......NOBODY WANTS TO WORK AT MOST OF THESE JOBS BEING OFFERED BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE MORE MONEY DOING CONSTRUCTION OR CLEAN-UP WORK.......GAS PRICES HAVE SOARED AND PROMISE TO INCREASE EVEN MORE SHOULD ANOTHER STORM EVEN APPEAR TO BE HEADED FOR THE GULF..........WORK IS STILL GOING ON TO REPAIR AND RE-ENFORCE OUR HURRICANE PROTECTION LEVEES..........FEMA TRAILERS ARE STILL BEING USED BY THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES............IT WILL OBVIOUSLY BE YEARS BEFORE MOST OF THE GULF SOUTH EVEN RESEMBLES WHAT IT USED TO LOOK LIKE.........BUT THIS IS OUR HOME, AND WE WILL STAY HERE, AND DO WHAT WE HAVE TO DO, TO RETURN TO OUR UNIQUE WAY OF LIFE.........THANK YOU AMERICA, AND TO THE WORLD, FOR KEEPING US IN YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS.....WE WILL NEVER FORGET................... FATS DOMINO'S HOUSE "THANKS" to Coni and Karen for risking life and limb to get most of these pics !!! CLICK HERE TO CHECK OUT MORE KATRINA PICS HURRICANE GUSTAV SEPTEMBER 1, 2008 LOTS OF WIND AND RAIN, BUT IT WASN'T TOO BAD....POWER WAS OUT MOST OF THE WEEK....WE WERE PREPARED THIS TIME, AND IT PAID OFF FOR US....GUSTAV HIT US WITH MINIMAL DAMAGE, ABOUT LIKE WHAT WE GET FROM TROPICAL STORM WINDS....A WEEK LATER, IKE HAD OUR POWER OUT FOR ABOUT 12 HOURS, WITH LOTS OF WIND AND RAIN, BUT NOTHING MAJOR WAS DAMAGED........ I'M GETTIN' TOO OLD FOR THIS SHIT! HURRICANE ISAAC AUGUST 28/29, 2012 WE HAD LOTS OF RAIN AND WIND... OUR POWER WAS OUT FOR 66 HOURS, BUT WE HAD GENERATOR POWER, SO WE HAD A SMALL A/C UNIT, LIGHTS, REFRIGERATOR, AND TV.... COULD HAVE BEEN A LOT WORSE... WE HAD VERY MINIMAL DAMAGE... SOME PEOPLE ARE STILL WITHOUT POWER AS I WRITE THIS.... STILL LOTS OF TRAFFIC SIGNALS NOT WORKING, SO THE OBLIVIOUS IDIOTS ARE OUT IN FULL FORCE... IT'S AMAZING, THE NUMBER OF ASSHOLES ON THE ROAD THAT JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND THE RULES OF THE ROAD AND COMMON COURTESY.... OR THEY JUST DON'T GIVE A SHIT!!!! WE ARE SLOWLY RETURNING TO "ABNORMAL", AND HOPING WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS AGAIN FOR A WHILE..... BUT IT'S THE PRICE WE PAY FOR LIVING IN ONE OF THE MOST UNIQUE PLACES IN THE WORLD..... NOTICE PICTURES MAY NOT BE RE-PUBLISHED WITHOUT PERMISSION FROM THE OWNER OF THIS WEBSITE. ALL PICTURES ARE PROPERTY OF HDJAMMER.COM WELCOME \| TAKE BACK AMERICA \| JAMMIN' \| BITCHIN' \| THE BIRD \| THE BIRD TOO \| JOKES 'N STUFF \| HURRICANE WARNING ! \| WINTER STORM WARNING \| HALLOWEEN PARTY \| PARADE TIME \| CONI'S STUFF \| RANDOM SHOTS \| M/C GRAPHIX \| GULFPORT BLOWOUT \| LABOR DAY BIKER PARTY \| COOL LINKS \| CONTACT