New Orleans......unreal here

MarauderTJA

MarauderTJA

Extreme Bullitt
Spending a week here for work with the Sheriff's Department. Driving over here on I-10 I could not believe the destruction that is still everywhere after hurricane Katrina. Heading down St Bernard Ave over here to Bayou road was like driving though a war zone. These people here have it real rough.

A few minutes ago as I was on mm.net here on the porch at the B&B, I hear a motorcycle races by fairly close me. Then about two streets over I hear around 10-12 rapid fire gunshots. Sounded like a semi-auto rifle or carbine. Then two more loud gunshots, probably a shotgun (think return fire). I hear the MC take off ride down the street from me. The sirens are still wailing here. Now this is at 3:45 PM on a Sunday! Can't imagine it at night. I am in a safe area compund with electric gates. Plus I have a weapon (don't leave home without it). Should be an interestng week here. Glad I drove the SVT focus here. The Marauder would not be good on these small streets.
 
Savages,arent they.....unreal. Are they still trying to blame Bush for the hurricane and the gun fire between drug lords and gangs??? ::ugh::


Dont get dead brotha, stay safe...
 
OneBADLsE said:
Savages,arent they.....unreal. Are they still trying to blame Bush for the hurricane and the gun fire between drug lords and gangs??? ::ugh::


Dont get dead brotha, stay safe...
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of course, and tie it in with nothing done to curb global warming. At least as I hear every time someone talks about 'Katrina'
 
tmac1337 said:
Tom, are you still in the United States?
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I think we de-annexed Louisiana back to the French, didn't we?

If not, we should probably get that process started. They can even have it for free! (Just tell them to bring their social welfare system with them!)
 
My Sister in Law lives in Kenner La . and we at my home know how it really is over their. The news media doesn't report on it at all for some reason. It's still really out of control to a good degree. Tom glad to hear your in a safe complex . Be careful.
 
PM me, my sched this week is busy during the day.

Would like to try to meet or I can give you the scoop on the Phone.

Went out Sat Nite w/ the wife in Uptown N.O. Dropping the children off at their cousin where their aunt and other cousin were. I was the only male.

Getting dressed the wife hears my mini safe open and says you are bringing your gun, why? MY answer we are going Uptown. No more discussion needed.

We leave the cousins house together as their aunt is taking them out. The wife goes to her car a few feet away from the aunts car, I ask the wife to wait with me and she says, stand and watch them.

When we got to our rest I left the gun hidden in the car.

When I first moved back in Dec and on my visits in Sept, Oct and Nov. It was the wild, wild west. Home Depot had armed security guards. Fights and gun shots were not uncommon. A trucker threatened to kill me, I did not back down and he realized I wasn't easy prey so he backed down.

For the most part we are back to our normal crime with the exception it is being committed in new areas because the old ones are unihabitable and we still have rampant looting.

Every place I go in be it a rest, grocery or gas station I scan the exits, items for cover and things that can be used as a weapon as well as everyone in the store. When I here the staff get quiet, particularly in fast food / convience places I start heading for the exit or looking for cover while scanning which customers arrived that made them quite.
 
OneBADLsE said:
Savages,arent they.....unreal. Are they still trying to blame Bush for the hurricane and the gun fire between drug lords and gangs??? ::ugh::


Dont get dead brotha, stay safe...
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Thanks guy. Yeah, saw the news a little while ago, gang related. Happened on St Bernard Ave, right where I thought it was. A couple of them in the hospital, expected to survive (to do it again).

I feel for the people who live here that have to put up with this. And from what I understand it happens daily.
 
sailsmen said:
Every place I go in be it a rest, grocery or gas station I scan the exits, items for cover and things that can be used as a weapon as well as everyone in the store. When I here the staff get quiet, particularly in fast food / convience places I start heading for the exit or looking for cover while scanning which customers arrived that made them quite.
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That's not cool at all. That's no way to live, man!

But, then again, most of the degenerates from New Orleans now live right here in Houston, so it's not much different in some parts of town. I wish we could load them all up on buses and send them back to Louisiana. The refugees (different from evacuees, btw) been nothing but a headache for us over here.

Next time, all of us cops are thinking of blocking off all the exit ramps all across the State of Texas on Interstate-10, and just send the buses all the way to New Mexico. One way ticket, baby.
 
sailsmen said:
PM me, my sched this week is busy during the day.

Would like to try to meet or I can give you the scoop on the Phone.

Went out Sat Nite w/ the wife in Uptown N.O. Dropping the children off at their cousin where their aunt and other cousin were. I was the only male.

Getting dressed the wife hears my mini safe open and says you are bringing your gun, why? MY answer we are going Uptown. No more discussion needed.

We leave the cousins house together as their aunt is taking them out. The wife goes to her car a few feet away from the aunts car, I ask the wife to wait with me and she says, stand and watch them.

When we got to our rest I left the gun hidden in the car.

When I first moved back in Dec and on my visits in Sept, Oct and Nov. It was the wild, wild west. Home Depot had armed security guards. Fights and gun shots were not uncommon. A trucker threatened to kill me, I did not back down and he realized I wasn't easy prey so he backed down.

For the most part we are back to our normal crime with the exception it is being committed in new areas because the old ones are unihabitable and we still have rampant looting.

Every place I go in be it a rest, grocery or gas station I scan the exits, items for cover and things that can be used as a weapon as well as everyone in the store. When I here the staff get quiet, particularly in fast food / convience places I start heading for the exit or looking for cover while scanning which customers arrived that made them quite.
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I hear ya...(PM sent). Had a hard time finding a place to eat, at least one where I would eat, if you know what I mean. Finally ended up at a Winn Dixie and bought some food to bring back to my room. Don't really know my way around here very well. Thought it best to pack it in during the night.

Will be with the Sheriff's department all week on Tulane. Plenty of fire power there.
 
AstroVic said:
That's not cool at all. That's no way to live, man!

But, then again, most of the degenerates from New Orleans now live right here in Houston, so it's not much different in some parts of town. I wish we could load them all up on buses and send them back to Louisiana. The refugees (different from evacuees, btw) been nothing but a headache for us over here.

Next time, all of us cops are thinking of blocking off all the exit ramps all across the State of Texas on Interstate-10, and just send the buses all the way to New Mexico. One way ticket, baby.
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Saw a report on how much the violent crime/murder rate has increased in Houston since the Hurricane. Gang members are the ones most responsible for this, like everywhere else.
 
To this day, there are still some spots down in South Dade where you can see damage from Hurricane Andrew, and that was back in 1992. Most of it's gone now, but up until 2000, you saw it everywhere.

Unless you've been through one that devastating, it's difficult to imagine the sheer destructive power these things have.
 
Rick-n-Miami said:
To this day, there are still some spots down in South Dade where you can see damage from Hurricane Andrew, and that was back in 1992. Most of it's gone now, but up until 2000, you saw it everywhere.

Unless you've been through one that devastating, it's difficult to imagine the sheer destructive power these things have.
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I agree. I have lived and been through hurricanes all my life. In Massachusetts when I was a yong boy we had a huge elm tree cut our house in half from a massive hurricane in the late 50's. Never forgot the sound when it hit. We were in the safety of the basement. No basements in New Orleans or in Florida. Amazing destruction here. Couldn't imagine what these people must have gone through.
 
All facets of the city gov't have been run for 30 years by one political party. It is an example of how throwing money and rewarding irresponsible behaviour only results in more irresponsible behaviour w/ a shrinking tax base.

Fortunately or Unfortunately 30% of the Nations energy passes thru South LA and 30% of the Nations goods.

The State should succeed, charge tarriffs and we can either fix our problems or drown.

We sent 150K drug addicts to Houston, of which 25K were hard criminals. The criminals found out if you committ crime in Houston not only do you get arrested but you actually get convicted and go to jail. These criminals are now returning to NO. NO has a 6% murder arrest rate and 12% conviction rate. The current DA was sued and lost for dismissing most of the staff based on race and replacing them with those that had no experience.

The prob is the criminals cannot live where they used to live because most of those areas were destroyed. The criminals are now in the areas that were not destroyed. I have seen them in our neighborhood, something that has never happened before.

The illegal immigrants are now contributing to violent crime, up to this point mostly looting. As of 3 weeks ago looters broke into my grandmothers uptown house that is in a busy area and stole 50 year old toilets!

The Nat'l Guard is still hear. The NOPD has some serious probs that they are pretending do not exists. Out of 1,600 officers 200 were deserters and worse. Thats 20% of your force.

As far as City gov't and NOPD it's business as usual as though there never was a hurriucane.

We sold our house and bought one 30 miles north.:D We have an apt near our old house for the school year.

So long as New Orleans is the City that care forgot she will be just that.:cry:
 
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