Pictures from the aftermath of hurricane katria

[ViennaLAX16]

Hey all,

This pictures were taken by the one and only mrmccoolsatool. It's a collection of devastating photos. :whyme:

Please pray for all the victims!

http://community.webshots.com/user/the_lacrosse_massacre

[ViennaLAX16]

Yeah it could have been a lot worse

[unta8]

I thought they lived in virginia.

[ViennaLAX16]

yeah, but his whole family lives their. They moved too virginia a few years back. He went down their to help and stuff

[MainLax28]

Man, imagine the damage the bricks from that one house did to other houses. I have to say that this is the worst thing to happen to the us in a long time, Except 911

[Mavido]

Stay on topic, Dont argue, and dont curse. Otherwise this goes away for good.

[Trilax03]

yeah it is really sad how much damage resulted from the hurricane...i feel really bad for every1 down south who's houses and everything gone

[Krypt0M4g!c]

That water has to be extremely polluted

[Mrmccoolsatool]

ya when we were there you had to use the water teh red cross provided to cook, brush your teeth, ect.

[smooth87]

the families with pets, were they allowed to take them or were they all put into kennels?

[HdGLaxWarrior]

Some took them with them. Others put them in kennels with the intent to return to get them later. I've seen some sad pictures.

[Mavido]

Im sure there are a number of animals running stray right now. Hmph... maybe this is something useful Peta could do?

[ViennaLAX16]

They said that there are snakes, and gators going around right now.

[HdGLaxWarrior]

I bet. There should be like a reward. Like produce a gator tail. Get like $100.

[ViennaLAX16]

how about a gator...not dead? Believe it or not they do stuff for this sucidy(sp?)

[HdGLaxWarrior]

Well then only a few people will be able to remove the gators.

Suicidy?

[ViennaLAX16]

dude there about as freaked as humans right now.

[HdGLaxWarrior]

Suicide?

I bet there like I can swim anywhere I want...

[Mrmccoolsatool]

he meant society, and the gators are in new orleans but will be gone soon becasue the national govt. is pumping the water out of it. Then they will be taken out returned to bayous and rebuild louisiana.

[ViennaLAX16]

I'm bad at spelling.

And ya they have nothing to eat. They are dazed

[lax4life84]

Wow Mrmaccoolsatool those pictures really showed me how devastating it really was.

[franks2089]

I feel bad for the people, but the people that want to rebuild there arent very smart. I think that the government should pay off the people so everyone can rebuild somewhere else. And just have new orleans not be a city anymore.

[Mavido]

What about the port, its only the greatest port in the south east....

And they plan on making a dike, then emptying the water out and rebuilding all the sea walls/levies.. they will make the area much more secure i think.

Also what about Burbon street! honestly all the boobies!

[mrmccool]

alright well sorry to steal his thunder, but I took all of those pictures. we went down there and its horrible. peoples belongings line the streets in walls that you have to drive through. people have "were ok" spray painted onto the front of houses. its rediculous. i wrote an article for the school paper, it wasnt hard to cut and paste if you are interested. the pictures kinda go with the article. My updated webshots with those pictures (http://community.webshots.com/album/450947930ZuuRoL)
Hurricane Katrina:

Gulfport, MS – In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, just about all that remains is hope. Aided seemingly by the entire country, the coastal town of Gulfport has begun picking up the few pieces that the unprecedented storm left behind.
Trees lie everywhere, twisted out of the ground and snapped in half. Boats kidnapped by the flooding are everywhere, from cemeteries to a Burger King drive-thru. Entire neighborhoods of beautiful southern homes lie together in scrap piles where the water finally set them down. Everywhere the roads are lined with debris and trash. Walls 10 feet high and just as deep line both sides of neighborhood streets, where fallen trees, damaged furniture, pieces of houses and family belongings are piled away from the house. Often the road is narrowed to a single lane to make room for the debris. Downed power lines still lie in the road, distracting you from the line of overturned cars in the ditches. You can not drive a block without seeing major damage to buildings in the city. Several of the floating barge casinos that line the coast were displaced, and the President Casino was even picked up off its moorings. It came to rest 500 yards away on top of a Holiday Inn.
You can’t even get to the worst and most damaged part of the city. The military enforces a perimeter at the railroad tracks with razor wire. Families returning to their homes are allowed to search through the wreckage at certain times of the day, regulated by the military according to where the people live. Military convoys and equipment are continuously arriving, and marshal law has been established. An 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew is in place, and strictly enforced by the military. As my aunt was returning from a neighboring city she was stopped by an armed vehicle and commanded at gunpoint to not come out after curfew unless she wished to get herself arrested.
The military personnel is housed everywhere in rows of tents, while the sky is alive with transport planes and helicopters. Humvees patrol the streets and makeshift stop signs have been seen in the middle of all the intersections because few of the red lights are still up. Police from as far as South Carolina, Florida and Texas have showed up in long lines of cruisers zipping down the highway, and are helping run the city.
I went to drop off supplies to a distribution center that had been set up at the school my other aunt is a principle at. We arrived to find three big rigs stuffed with donations from across the country. A forklift was going as fast as it could to unload everything, but the bags of clothes and shipping palettes of food were unending. Inside the school’s cafeteria, shelves had been arranged like a drug and food store. They had everything from water and wheelbarrows to spam and bleach. The “store” as it was called was set up in the elementary school and gave up all the items for free. At the front door, a table was set up with free vaccinations for tetanus and a doctor was on hand for anyone that needed attention. When I asked, everyone that was working the store and clinic were from Arkansas, all volunteers that had come down as a group. Looking around, church vans from all over were unloading people and donations.
Delisle Elementary is now the only standing school left of the four in the district. When it reopens, it will house all four of the schools in trailers behind the building. The trailers are going to be placed in rows, and an entire county will go to school in one elementary school. All schools are closed now, and can only speculate when it’s possible to reopen the doors. Since mass communication is nearly out of the question, restoring families, schools and communities is difficult. There are people unaware of the toxic water coming from their faucets.
Thanks to all the out of town power trucks and Mississippi Power’s hard work, 90 percent of the affected area has power now, but the hardest hit coastal areas are still out of touch from the inland parts of town, separated by impenetrable debris blocking the streets. There is running water, but bacteria make it undrinkable. Water is arriving in truckloads and is handed out by the Red Cross and volunteers. The Red Cross also carries around any things you might need, like toothbrushes, and also hands out boxes of MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) from the government. Most stores and shopping centers took damage. They declare themselves open with spray paint on the plywood that covers their broken windows. In K-marts and the other shopping centers with large parking lots, tents have been erected for distribution sites, staging areas for relief work, and housing now-homeless population. Parking lots have turned into free centers of clothing, food and water. People drift through the bags of stuff looking for anything useful, and sleep in tents, campers and cars while the disaster is sorted out.
Stories I heard from the people down there are silencing. The proportions the storm reached are unimaginable, even after seeing the pictures and video reels. A native of Bay St. Louis (to Gulfport’s west along the coast) recounted her confusion driving through the town she grew up in.
“Everything is wiped flat. Roads are straight and perpendicular now, because that’s the way the trucks cleared the mounds of debris that once were houses.” She said. “I couldn’t even recognize the neighborhoods.”
Another couple I talked to had a house on the coast east of Gulfport. They reported returning to their house to find a three foot shark in the goldfish pond, as well as many other fish from the gulf. In searching through the house that had been entirely submerged, the sheets on their bed were pulled back to unhide a horseshoe crab in their bed. They spoke of bodies that were being discovered on the barrier islands several miles away that had been taken out to sea. They also mentioned the dramatic increase of sharks now in the area, brought in by the storm from the warmer waters.
Stories of people climbing up to their attics mid storm were common; the water level rose dramatically and fell slowly. On the highway overpass of Bay St. Louis, the water line was marked with a line of piled debris, 30 feet above the ground. Houses on stilts were carried away, and roofs were peeled away.
Residents lucky enough to still have a standing house are doing as best they can to clean out their houses. Driving down the street, you see all of a family’s possessions in a wet moldy pile on the front yard. Salvaged clothes are hung up in front of the house in trees and on wires. Some houses have spray paint on the front of their houses declaring the address, name, and insurance company of the occupants. FEMA registration numbers are sprayed on condemned houses. The military and police forces continue to search fallen homes for survivors and bodies, and have different markings for condemned houses and checked houses.
Where once stood houses are now stilts, and sometimes only a slab. Huge yachts sit on mountains of debris, and sailboats hang from trees 30 feet in the air in entanglement. Where the water had flooded, layers of dirt and mud lay all over the roads, trees, houses and cars. I visited a cemetery with two 40 foot boats sitting on top of the graves, their owners unknown. Neither boat was from Gulfport.
Bulletin boards have sprouted up everywhere, names posted like classifieds of people that had been found, and those that were still missing. Some houses even were sprayed, “We’re all OK” and then a phone number. A gas station was giving away the first five gallons you wanted, and charging 2 dollars for every gallon after that. (You needed a MS driver’s license to qualify)
Rumors of scams are going around. People dressed as FEMA officials that collect personal information like S.S. numbers and birthdates for “damage information reasons”. Perhaps there’s news of that out already, I haven’t seen a cable newscast in a couple days. They get one channel, and unfortunately it was the Green Bay Packers getting stomped on.
Rebuilding will be slow and gradual. The help continues to pour in by the truckload from across the country. I saw utility trucks from Connecticut. People from across the country are doing what they can, and the response from fellow citizens has been unwavering. Clothes and food continue to pour in, and without that support the Gulf Coast would be lost.
Delisle Elementary store had begun a wall of cards drawn by children that were sent with all the food donated at schools around the country. Colorful scribbling done with markers and crayons expressed sincere apologies and good wishes. A pink and yellow card from a little girl said a lot in a few words.
“I feel bad about the huracan. It is sad. Wish it never hapend. So were giving you some stuff. Hope your ok. Love, Shira”

[JimmyDean]

really makes me think how lucky i am not to have to go through it

[laxfolife24]

its scary how that all happened.