Some of my Katrina pics (pics)

**davethetruth** · 09-15-2005, 10:15 AM

Wordpress is supposed to be the best blog software.

Amazing pics.

From the looks of the down houses it seems like you're lucky to be alive.

**Manowar** · 09-15-2005, 10:18 AM

damn ://////

**mardigras** · 09-15-2005, 10:19 AM

Originally posted by davethetruth

Wordpress is supposed to be the best blog software.

Amazing pics.

From the looks of the down houses it seems like you're lucky to be alive.

I am more than lucky, man. I'm one of only 3 in the neighorhood with power and the only one wih a livable room to work out of while reclaiming. I am the luckiest SOB for 300 miles...

**Scott McD** · 09-15-2005, 10:24 AM

Damn, cool pic's. But also not so cool...

**Doc911** · 09-15-2005, 10:25 AM

damn thats some damage!

**media** · 09-15-2005, 10:25 AM

Welcome back Mardigras! Glad to see you made it out alive...

**kosta** · 09-15-2005, 10:27 AM

congrats.

**EroticySteve** · 09-15-2005, 10:28 AM

Blogger.com is the way to go. It integrates with Google Toolbar makes it easy and quick to post anywhere, anytime.

**GoNe** · 09-15-2005, 10:34 AM

Originally posted by media

Welcome back Mardigras! Glad to see you made it out alive...

Yeah glad to see you made it out alive.

**Babagirls** · 09-15-2005, 10:39 AM

blogger.com for the blog..

damn, those pics are wicked crazy

So glad your safe!!

**mardigras** · 09-15-2005, 10:41 AM

Originally posted by GoNe

Yeah glad to see you made it out alive.

I was really brave until the water rose to the window panes... then I was a big screaming sissy for about a half a minute, then I rescued the dogs

**pornguy** · 09-15-2005, 10:50 AM

Hey mardigras. Do me a favor. Send me a link to the unedited copies of any of the photos that you have. I am going to try and use some of them for a magazine article. I want exclusive stuff. So photos that you took.

**LiveDose** · 09-15-2005, 10:53 AM

Originally posted by mardigras

I am more than lucky, man. I'm one of only 3 in the neighorhood with power and the only one wih a livable room to work out of while reclaiming. I am the luckiest SOB for 300 miles...

Man you have such an awesome attitude! That is very cool that you kept a journal during all this.

Take care!

**Jay** · 09-15-2005, 10:55 AM

Originally posted by mardigras

I was really brave until the water rose to the window panes... then I was a big screaming sissy for about a half a minute, then I rescued the dogs

I would probably start screaming like a sissy as soon as the water started coming under the doors...

Great pictures, I hope we never get hit with something like that. Katrina was only Cat 1 when she went thru my neighborhood and that was bad enough.

**mardigras** · 09-15-2005, 11:11 AM

Originally posted by pornguy

Hey mardigras. Do me a favor. Send me a link to the unedited copies of any of the photos that you have. I am going to try and use some of them for a magazine article. I want exclusive stuff. So photos that you took.

Those are the only ones I have online so far (they are heavily shrunk/compressed). I'll upload some uncompressed ones in a bit (I lost my DSL modems in the surge so I am currently on 56K and the pics run 2 meg+- each). I have some mov files and still pics taken during the storm, after I pulled the camera out of the attic the movie mode no longer worked. I was able to take a number of still pictures of damage by turning the camera off and on in between each picture for a couple days after the storm, then it died. By then I was able to get some disposable cameras. I haven't developed any of those yet but was able to retrieve the pics and vids from the digital camera chip through the slot on my replacement PC.

Tell me where to contact, or hit me up at mardigras (at) bellsouth (dot) net
I'll send you some stuff.

I have a pic of a house dropped intact in one lane of a street and cars driving around it

**loverboy** · 09-15-2005, 01:35 PM

Bush has lots of cleaning up to do

**Kassidy** · 09-15-2005, 01:39 PM

Those pics are amazing, thank you for sharing! Good luck rebuilding everything.

**pornguy** · 09-15-2005, 01:39 PM

Man that is great. I just sent you an e-mail. Has my nic in the subject line. Thanks.

**phonesex** · 09-15-2005, 02:15 PM

glad to see your ok

**BrookeSkye** · 09-15-2005, 02:17 PM

thanks for showing those pics, glad your ok.

**Quagmire** · 09-15-2005, 02:42 PM

I was really brave until the water rose to the window panes... then I was a big screaming sissy for about a half a minute, then I rescued the dogs

When the water hits the level of the window panes I think the rules for 'big screaming sissy' change. thats some seriously messed up shit to have to deal with...

**Halcyon** · 09-15-2005, 03:03 PM

Amazing.... glad you are ok.

**OG LennyT** · 09-15-2005, 03:10 PM

Glad to hear your alright

**Rand** · 09-15-2005, 03:45 PM

Originally posted by mardigras

I was really brave until the water rose to the window panes... then I was a big screaming sissy for about a half a minute, then I rescued the dogs

I don't think anyone who wasn't there can imagine what it was like. And it's not as if this nightmare is over for you.

One of our sales rep's is from New Orleans and the stories he's hearing and conveying are literally unbelievable, or at least, nearly inconceivable.

Glad you're ok and all the best going forward.

**greentea** · 09-15-2005, 03:46 PM

I bet the mold cleanup wont be fun, good luck.

Glad to see you survived.

**Spunky** · 09-15-2005, 03:47 PM

Damn scary shit man

**tranza** · 09-15-2005, 05:12 PM

damn, what a fucking disaster...

**Furious_Male** · 09-15-2005, 05:15 PM

Some humbling photos. Best wishes getting back on track.

**Matt Collins** · 09-15-2005, 05:33 PM

Wow! Those pics tell a real story of what happened.

Good luck with the hardest part: rebuilding.

**PixeLs** · 09-15-2005, 05:34 PM

Damn that nature's strength!

**mardigras** · 09-15-2005, 06:24 PM

Originally posted by greentea

I bet the mold cleanup wont be fun, good luck.

What's not fun is finding things that captured some of the surge water. The smell is about equivelent to walking into a broken public toilet that people have continued to use...

**myjah** · 09-15-2005, 06:36 PM

You got some great pics of it, sad as it is.

**fusionx** · 09-15-2005, 06:38 PM

Great pics - I'm glad you made it through as well as you did!

Definately start with blogger.com. You can use it to create the blog. Just set it to use your own domain and blogger will FTP your pages in no time.

I use Picasa 2 from Google to organize and review pics, and it has a utility called Hello! that makes it trivial to post new pics without ever going to blogger.com. You just select the pics in Picasa 2, click the Hello! button, and some captions, including HTML if you want, for links or bold, etc, and let it rip.

If you really want to run your own blog software, as mentioned above, Wordpress is very easy to set up and get working out of the box. You can find different template layouts all over the place. Installing them is really easy if you can use FTP :-)

Good luck - if you need any help hit me up on ICQ tomorrow - I gott aget some sleep tonight.

**Stacey_JoinRightNow** · 09-15-2005, 06:43 PM

Whoaaa... that's great pic you've got there, very realistic and you've capture the real scene... but that event is so horrible!

Glad you're allright now...

**Th!nk** · 09-16-2005, 12:40 AM

wow! that was sad pics...but good to hear your back!

**lim_joe** · 09-16-2005, 12:47 AM

wishing you good luck and getting everything back to normal.. i know it's alot of work but you guys can do it!

**High Plains Drifter** · 09-16-2005, 01:12 AM

Great pictures... what area is that?

**Paul&John** · 09-16-2005, 01:15 AM

Damm nasty pics.

**Sarah_Jayne** · 09-16-2005, 03:58 AM

How are the dogs doing?

I am still relieved whenever I see you post.

**wildgirl** · 09-16-2005, 04:46 AM

hmmm thanks for sharing those pics...

**sweetums** · 09-16-2005, 05:16 AM

Those pics are crazy - disaster at the doorstep

Glad to hear that you and yours made it through - most important thing.

**Pete-KT** · 09-16-2005, 05:24 AM

wow thats crazy, do you have anymore pics?

Some of my Katrina pics (pics)

Some of my Katrina pics (pics)

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