OT: Katrina - Getting the Hell Outta Here

djshiva · Post by **djshiva** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 7:40 am

blake...

very sorry to hear of your loss. while i am sure we are all glad you and yours are safe, this must be devastating.

best wishes to you...

blakbeltjonez · Post by **blakbeltjonez** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 8:26 am

blakejarrell wrote:my whole family and i lost everything

our houses, cars
i lost the club i had a residency at
my school, desktop computer

im moving to omaha because i have no choice

i have no job, there will be no electricity or water for weeks, it could take weeks to build new pumps to suck out the water in our neighborhoods. the looters are blowing up all the atms and stealing the money. there will be no gas. etc etc.

the news is spinning the story saying new orleans did not get hit, and its true because the city dynamited the levees at all the residential areas so the French Quarter and the Central Business District wouldnt flood

if you want to see whats really going on, go to www.wdsu.com and watch the live video feed of homes under 12 feet of water and people being helicoptered out from their roofs.

wish me luck, and if anyone knows of any gigs in the nebraska area, let me know.

damn....very sorry to hear that, blake. hope you and your family can get back on your feet soon.

from the news that's coming out now it looks like it's more like 80% (according to the mayor) of Nola is under water at this point, the inundation has been slow due to levee breaches and failure of a few pumping stations.

there always seems to be kind of a lag between the initial TV reports and the brutal reality of the aftermath, same thing happened last year down here in FL for Charley and back in 1992 it was at least a couple of days before people really started to realize the full extent of Hurricane Andrew.

looks also like Mississippi got hit very hard by Katrina, especially Biloxi area - one county alone had 50 fatalities, Katrina came ashore very near where Camille did 35 years earlier. hopefully things won't turn out to be too bad, but the storm surge appears to have been massive.

4ace · Post by **4ace** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:17 pm

Sorry to hear about your loss blake,and good luck..

As for me i got out of there,i have no idea if my apt. made it.
I grabbed a car load of gear(all of it) and hauled ass.

I'll be relocating to Houston, So if anyone in Houston is reading this
let me know where the shows are...

ikeaboy · Post by **ikeaboy** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:50 pm

blakejarrell wrote: the city dynamited the levees at all the residential areas so the French Quarter and the Central Business District wouldnt flood

I hope there's compensation on the way. Sorry to here about your neighbourhood Blake, i can't imagine.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 4:57 pm

blakejarrell wrote:my whole family and i lost everything

our houses, cars
i lost the club i had a residency at
my school, desktop computer

im moving to omaha because i have no choice

i have no job, there will be no electricity or water for weeks, it could take weeks to build new pumps to suck out the water in our neighborhoods. the looters are blowing up all the atms and stealing the money. there will be no gas. etc etc.

the news is spinning the story saying new orleans did not get hit, and its true because the city dynamited the levees at all the residential areas so the French Quarter and the Central Business District wouldnt flood

if you want to see whats really going on, go to www.wdsu.com and watch the live video feed of homes under 12 feet of water and people being helicoptered out from their roofs.

wish me luck, and if anyone knows of any gigs in the nebraska area, let me know.

My heart goes out to you and everyone else - I just cannot even begin to imagine

It's kind of strange to hear a first hand account - well the good part is you have the opportunity to start over (know what I mean) some people in that area don't even have that choice

Good luck to you and your family!

Adonis

hambone1 · Post by **hambone1** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 5:04 pm

Blake

Sorry to hear about your loss. If it's any consolation, often there's a silver living to these dark clouds (no pun intended).

Sometimes you've gotta look hard to find it, though...

You're safe... that's more than a lot of folks can say, especially in Mississippi.

"Always look on the bright side of life..."

ishimaru · Post by **ishimaru** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:13 pm

You gotta look at one thing and one thing only ... you where able to type to us about what happened. You got your whole life to live now.

tribalogical · Post by **tribalogical** » Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:47 pm

it looked like NOLA was going to get off *relatively* easy (not the wholesale cataclysm originally expected).... but then the lake levee broke overnight (Monday night)... now the whole city is taking on water and it's rising fast....

So much for getting off easy.

And here I was thinking about moving there (almost did earlier this year). Really wanted to........ damn.

Prayers for all down there.

peace,
tribalogical

reset · Post by **reset** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:44 pm

Reset lost everything, too. Couldn't even pack my iMAC. Today we found the last missing person of our family.

I'll hang in there.

Thanks for your thoughts.

chris

conny · Post by **conny** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:04 pm

reset wrote:Reset lost everything, too. Couldn't even pack my iMAC. Today we found the last missing person of our family.

I'll hang in there.

Thanks for your thoughts.

chris

Feelings from me, not much I can do, but anyway.
// C

amo · Post by **amo** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:11 pm

conny wrote:
reset wrote:Reset lost everything, too. Couldn't even pack my iMAC. Today we found the last missing person of our family.

I'll hang in there.

Thanks for your thoughts.

chris
Feelings from me, not much I can do, but anyway.
// C

Same here. Warm thoughts to all of those hit by mother nature ! (hu, mother can be harsh sometimes....)

Kind regards,
amo

colin_h · Post by **colin_h** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:50 am

blake and reset-
damn....
my condolences.
good luck.

subterFUSE · Post by **subterFUSE** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:27 pm

Not that this is anything close to what happened in LA, but I had 3 hurricances last summer.

I think a lot of people who have never been through these things fail to understand the difficulty of evacuating from a major hurricane. Even for people who have cars, money and generally the means to escape. It's just not as simple as leaving.

I would have left before Charlie, but there was no gas anywhere. And I mean ANYWHERE. All stations in the Orlando area, and around the state were dry. I had a full tank of gas... but the only place I could go to would have been my parents home in South Carolina. It's a 6 hour drive, and at the time, my car had a small gas tank so it could not drive but halfway there without refueling. If I had started driving to evacuate, I would have run out of gas and then been stuck in the car somewhere near Jacksonville or southern Georgia. If the storm took a turn, it could have gone right through there, too... so evacuating became the more dangerous option. (Better to be in a house than in a car when a hurricane is overhead)

So I stayed, and I was safe... but the people across the street lost their home and car when a tree landed on it. Their car was in the garage, and got cut in two. The house was split down the middle, as well. It is still not fixed yet. Just a pile of rubble.

I was without power for over half a month last summer, between the 3 storms. 95+ degree heat. Plus our water supply was contaminated badly. I lived on Cheerios cereal and stockpiles of water for a week after Charlie, because even though I had a car... with a tank of gas... my neighborhood was blocked by a million trees that fell across the streets so I couldn't drive anywhere. Once the trees were cleared, I could not risk wasting my gas because there was so little gas at the stations. I was afraid to waste the full tank I had... because I might have needed it for an emergency.

So.... I know what a huge mess this whole thing is. What LA is going through is absolutely worse. I don't what to deal with another week like the one I had after Charlie last year. But... what they've got going on in New Orleans now... I'll take Charlie again, thank you.

claudek · Post by **claudek** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 3:36 pm

Sorry to hear all this. I always think things happen for a reason.
Maybe your move in life will bring you to another place, life, job and friends etc..
Keep your heads up and stay strong..
Good will come.

Sales Dude McBoob · Post by **Sales Dude McBoob** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:31 pm

Tonight I'm going to give some $$ to the Red Cross and play one of my all time favortie songs off of one of my all time favorite albums... Dr. John's 'I Walk On Guilded Splinters' on Gris-Gris Gumbo Ya-ya.

My heart goes out to all of you.