Awesome story...VERY funny video.
I saw alot of destruction following Katrina and Rita. I was on an 8-week hitch, both hurricanes happened during that hitch. Before Katrina, we were working out of Venice, LA...we evacuated to Morgan City/Amelia, rode it out at the dock. A few days after Katrina, I took the boat, M/V Brawler, around to Fourchon where we were going to be running out of (Katrina basicly wiped Venice off the map). Running the Atchafalaya River wasn't too bad, but as soon as I cleared the Eugene Island Channel Seabouy and turned toward the 29-line at the "Heel", we were met with mine-field-like debris. You name it, it was floating in the Gulf...logs, appliances, pieces of buildings, PFD's, tanks, large steel/aluminum boxes, animals, reptiles, rope, lumber...if it could float...probably the only thing we didn't see was a human body...even still, there were some things we couldn't "positively identify".
I have non-digital pictures of a production platform that's located just outside of the MS River Delta/Southwest Pass, that's leaning at probably 30-35 degrees, maybe a little more.
I went to Cameron awhile after Rita...could barely recognize it. The grocery store that supplied our groceries, was reduced to a steel frame and a concrete slab. Most of the homes were gone, with only foundations in their place. I saw houses and vehicles that were thrown across the marsh...miles from any solid ground, where they once stood. Just West of Cameron, the small beach town, Holly Beach, looked as though a giant broom swept it away, leaving Pilons and a few Concrete Slabs. In Cameron, all You could smell was the stench of the flooded Pogy Plant and dead Livestock.
Never before had I felt so much sorrow, for people I didn't know.
