Katrina was what?? 6 years ago?? anyway, I signed on as part of the FEMA Katrina effort, Parsons-Brinkerhoff employee, for housing damage appraisal...
the shit I saw woke up my sleepy ass...mother ducker...there was such mass confustion, on the way out there, I spied a tree stump about 10' tall to the right/north side of I 10 as I heading west, that tree was about ~3' diameter, larger than the others...but it's a guess on diameter.....the stump I saw was twisted around like a broom handle with a pipe wrench on one end, the wood was splintered/twisted and splayed out like prawns on a palm tree, at the same height all the trees were broken off like lawn mower, and the billboards were broken the same way, sheared off clean....
that ONE tree obviously hit by summfin....and it wasn't any Caddy.....
it was a Olds....
then the trip across the bridge near Mobile bay Alabama...to the right/north span was two HUGE 3-4 story houses taking maybe 1/4 acre footprint each...the one closer to the freeway was leaned over maybe 20* or so, roof about totally gone, the larger neighbor was the same lean but had the roof on....both were toast....how they hung together is anyone's guess, must have been some serious steel anchors in them walls, but when the thing healed over like a sailboat....them were useless....
then on the way back east, same bridge going east and so looking south, I spotted a slab of about a acre in size,....I dunno what was there, but that thing was bald as my head....not one piece of pipe/plumbing/electrical/conduit/NUTTIN honey flat DAMN covered in the storm surge mud....
the contents of peoples houses all over I 10 in both directions....mattresses, bedsheets, rugs, furniture hung up in what was left of the trees, stainless kitchen double bucket sink in the median strip.....freeking unbelieveable....
wood everywhere, clothing, you name, a huge fishing trawler bow up looking at the sky about 45* angle leaned over to port, wedged tight up against the southern span abutment on the western shore of some river/creek....maybe a 60' steel boat....
and I am going to leave the poly ticks outta it....it was a HUGE CAT ASS TROPHY.....
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