What was the craziest story you heard that came out of Katrina?

Question

Many of us read the American Heritage presentation of this nations 10 worst disasters, I am sure. http://www.americanheritage.com/places/articles/web/20060905-natural-disasters.shtml

And many of you know first, (or second) hand of a wild and wooly event that settled around Katrina.

The Carnegie, Mellon, and Henry Clay Frick's South Fork Hunting and Fishing Club dam breaking flood disaster in
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, back in 1889 made me remember what my cousin described to me regarding a previous neighbor of his. "It was not recognizable as water, it was a dark mass in which seethed houses, freight cars, trees, and animals".....

After weeks of trying to locate he and his family, I was finally able to contact his son who was living in Naples, Florida, which you will recall got hit with another hurricane not a month after Katrina. His son had gone up to help his father after Katrina hit. To be continued....in additional details.

I don't recall which one told me the story, but a previous neighbor of my cousins, who lived right on the beach at Pass Christian where Katrina made landfall, decided to just ride the storm out, as he and natives in the area had done for decades before.

When Katrina hit, it took his home off its pilings (twenty foot telephone poles sitting out of the ground - above ground - so as to handle such things as high tides) and swept he and his house inland. The man, in his seventies, managed to crawl out of a window and on to his roof as his house moved inland?? Eventually the roof separated from the house, and he rode the roof to Bay St. Louis, 15 miles away where he was rescued. What ever happened to the man after that, I don't know.

Answer 1

That the levees were actually detonated to flood the 9th ward in order to save the better parts of the city. This actually did happen in 1938 and some Katrina survivors have actually said they heard a series of explosion prior to a large surge of flooding.

Answer 2

Well, there was this one person down my road... the first floor flooded, so they went to the second. That started flooding, so he went to the attic. THAT started flooding, so he looked outside his window for something to jump on. Lo and behold, a skiff was floating just under his window waiting for him.

Also, a news reporter down here was in her house and jumped into her empty jacuzzi as it floated by. Her dog wouldn't leave her side for at least a month. (The dog even got into the studio, no problem! You could hear it stir every few minutes.)

Answer 3

dude i heard about this one where new orleans got flooded. ****** crazy shi t