Hurricane Katrina local coverage 8/28/05: Clip 1

[renecrod3]

I was at the Convention Center in New Orleans the Friday before Katrina for tht taping of The wheel Of Fortune.

[bayou432]

@sweetamyleigh Brad panovich had left WWL TV early in 2003 for a TV station in Charlotte, North Carolina. He only came back to help out for Hurricane Katrina coverage and then resumed his normal duties in Charlotte.

[saintsfan70072]

i remember saturday night 2 days b4 she hit i waz at my friends house chillin and drinkin thinking katrina waz gona miss us.. then another 1 of my friends came over on there way out and said we better leave cuz it waz gona hit us, us being from new orleans and the storms always miss us we wasent worried and told him we gona be ok...went to sleep woke katrina hit cat 5 and comein right for us i called my friend whos house i waz by the night b4 and told him 2 come get me i dont wana die.we got out

[anthonynami2]

i want to find the the wwl radio broadcast i want to listin to it agin

[pika23]

oh man...I remember the weekend it happened. I going to Maine from NJ to visit my dad...I heard bits of it on the radio..but didn't see the carnage on tv til I got to my fathers that night. oh man...just heartbreaking and epic devastation! All those people getting stuck on the roofs

[VValkyrie]

Funny, 2 days before Katrina hit, storm was supposed to land in Florida at Apalachicola, then Panama City, then Pensacola. Storm was supposed to turn east but it never did. We live in New Orleans, got 6 ft of water in our home but were able to rebuild.  We were back in our house 1 year & 1 day after Katrina.

[xXKrazyLepreconXx]

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▲ ▲ Hurricane katrina can't triforce.

[altfactor]

WWL (and rival station WDSU) streamed their live coverage online, so although I live thousands of miles away, I watched coverage (mostly WWL's) online for hours on end, day after day.

In my opinion, WWL and WDSU's coverage of the storm was the "finest hour" in the history of television in New Orleans.

After Katrina, I even E-Mailed the Television Academy suggesting both WWL and WDSU get special Emmy awards for their live coverage of the storm.

[BilboBobkins]

it would of been better if directly hit new orleans then we would of got our insurence money

[EdM021]

I remember the predictions... thank God Katrina veered East! (No thanks to the COE... their levees broke.) A direct hit with katrina's eye on N.O. would have completely demolished the city. Only the surviving mid-rise and high-rise buildings, and the Robert E. Lee monument would have been above the surface of the water! :(

[wxpano]

thank sfor the video I didn't even know there was video of WWL coverage from Sunday out there!

[nirob]

this is what happends to people that don't take mother nature seriously. nature created its best weapon against us and they stare it in the eye.

[tigerlily46514]

Ignorant Nirob, you sound like a christian..bet you are.

It'd be interesting to see what you would do, if you maybe had zero dollars, had been thru dozens of hurricanes just fine, maybe had zero car...

Nola folks have lived there for 7,8 generations, it is their home. Where do you live, probably on a fault line or a tornado zone.

[TexasLonghorn07]

wtf are you talking about? there were many people who could have evacuated but didn't. And what the hell does living in a earthquake or tornado area have to do with anything?

[Yutzwagon404]

they say katrina went from a natural disaster to a mournful national tragedy.

[airdriver]

Try national disgrace.

[AarHan3]

MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 2005.

You will remember this day.

As long as you live. :-|

[lklk90]

NO SHIT. HOW I LOOK AT EVERY WALL,CAR,HOUSE,CONER, AND PERSON, EVRN THE KIDS, HAS A Katrina story behind them

[statboy08]

Yep Im from California and I remember what I was doing -- getting for my first day back to college

-response to AarHan3

[nola70124]

"lakeview area" - AMAZING!

[IluvClassicNick]

WWL Rocks! They have always kept the people of New Orleans and the surounding parrishes informed when anytype of tropical system is comming there way espically a storm like this one or Besty that hit there in the 8o's. (I beleve thats what is was)Nash Roberts rocked while he was there also.

[Dj0287]

LOL Hey no problem got more videos coming!!

[IluvClassicNick]

WOW! Thanks Dj0 You rock!