re: Unreleased footage of hurricane Katrina from New Orleans fire department documentary

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The entire house was gone with the only thing remaining was a tiled shower wall. It was perpendicular to the beach so I guess after everything else gave way, it was free standing and able to withstand. 

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Along with one of my cousins, probably in Nov or Dec, we took an ATV ride down what was left of the highway to look at the damage. We weren't in Long Beach because a National Guardsman in a Humvee was at the border between PC and Long Beach. He told us we couldn't cross. I asked if we should go back to the house. He said No, we could ride around PC all we wanted, but that we weren't allowed into Long Beach. He didn't know why, but we weren't allowed in Long Beach.

So we turned around and headed west. I saw a house about a half block off the beach with nothing left but a toilet. Everything else around it was completely slabbed. I drove up to it to look around. It had about 4 or 6 ~4" metal poles bolted to what apparently was the front porch. The wood cladding was gone and the poles bent to the slab. Each had 4 pretty substantial bolts thru a baseplate and into the slab. About half of the bolts were sheared off and the other half bent nearly 90°. Nothing else left on the slab except that one toilet.