Hurricane Katrina DVD Documentary, from Miami to New Orleans and Biloxi.

[Numba1SouthParkFan]

Lucky kids in katrina must have mist a whole week of school due to the storm.

[azmatthews]

I stumbled upon this by accident, but am glad I watched it. I have watched many documentaries and most have a slant to their way of thinking. Yours does not . It is an amazing account of that storm. I also find it interesting tha people have posted on here anger at you for not helping one person, instead of anger at authorities for allowing this to end up the way it did, or anger that the lower 9th ward was still like that. I wonder what it is like today, and I also fear that if it happens again

[akshayzz1]

Are 2 people out of their minds??

[Fenris357]

great film making mate, what vehicle were you driving?

[Clarrisani]

Thank you for uploading this. It's well put together and demonstrates well just how powerful the storm was. Have you considered putting it onto a dvd? With the profits (excluding the costs of creating and selling the dvds) you could put towards one of the charities helping rebuild the area.

[superpar14]

59:30 MONEY!!!! all that matters eh??

[bnvn1]

@superpar14 He lived their and he wants to know what the city leaders did with all the money that was suppose to protect them?

[emenentia]

good

[SwaggerLikeMe2009]

Great documentary! Good job surviving! 

[SwaggerLikeMe2009]

Im only 5 minutes in and the words all over the screen is annoying the shit outta me... Sux cuz it seems good so far

[bnvn1]

@SwaggerLikeMe2009 Sucks when people rip off my footage.

[chaser859]

i dont understand why people stay when they are told to leave? and then complain and cry and whinge. yeah its tough leaving everything behind but id rather my house get robbed then have to get rescued later off my roof..

[TwinTerrorStudios]

Was this submitted to any film festivals??

[bnvn1]

@TwinTerrorStudios Nope

[bnvn1]

@TwinTerrorStudios Nope, never sent to any festivals since most want something that was shot and produced within the last year.

[jellybellysarah]

i remember watching the news with my mum and dad when this happend and i was only about 4 or 5 yrs old.

[Katrinaa299]

We were learning about this in geography last year, and i think i was the only person actually watching, as everyone else spent the time giggling about how my name is Katrina...

[bnvn1]

@Katrinaa299 How do you think the band "Katrina and The Waves" feels?

[rbutler89]

Excellent job.. one of the best Katrina docs Ive seen

[roseybugg]

Very well done. Thank you for taking the risk so others could see what happened.

[TheMysteriousNicole]

that's one tough SUV



[bnvn1]

@TheMysteriousNicole It was a rental.

[cerwin7]

@bnvn1 wow thats some serious moral hazard. let me guess, you didn't tell the rental company you were going to use the rental for filming a hurricane did you? nice work though.

[bnvn1]

@cerwin7 Actually they did know what I was doing and I told them I would need full insurance since "I was here for the hurricane". The staff at the rental car companies don't care if you are taking out full insurance while renting it from the hurricane area since as one employee told me, "if you buy the insurance, we don't have to pay for the damage it will receive just parked in our lot during the storm".

[melrosepark]

I think the police shouldn't risk their life to patrole the city, if people don't want to leave, just leave it and be own their own

[xgelytotx]

thanks for uploading this, i live in ireland and watched katrina unfold on the news, even though i know it was horrific and devastating i didnt fully comprehend how powerful the hurricane was till i saw this... thank again

[Kaitos11]

Simply astounding, 6 years after it happened and it's still difficult to comprehend just how things went down. Great video, this certainly made me reflect on some things.

Btw, you used a rental truck to get through that? Haha, you're crazy...what did the company say when they saw the truck?

[bnvn1]

@Kaitos11 The truck was fine, just needed a good bath to remove the salt water storm surge. They actually bitched at me when I brought it back to Houston telling me I needed to pay a one way rental charge since I did not rent it from their location. I told them the location I rented it from (New Orleans) was no longer on the face of this earth. They looked at the paperwork and said oh, never mind...

[enmemoria]

lol! Girl: Everythings fine! the weather's nice and hot!

bnvn1:  yeah, wait 30 hours.....

..he was right. katrina was hell.

[JessicaTG2008]

Truly awesome video of a very horrific situation. Very well done. It is amazing to see the things that the usual newsmedia had no way of capturing and words could never express. I stumbled across this and couldn't stop watching until it was complete. Thankfully you had the means to get yourself out if there. I know others always let you remember there were those who didn't, but the truth is, they did have every opportunity to do so. Either by car, bike or simply walking to save thier own lives.

[purseonal2010]

I remember a news segment where this parking lot was full of buses. I forgot if they were school buses or city buses, but they were buses. There were lots of them! All those people who made the excuse that they had NO way out of the city, because they were poor and didn't own a car coulda been put on those buses, and brought to safety. Instead, lots of people died in the storm. Very sad!

[brionnakennedy]

wow i can't believe you denied that guy a ride.... you would want a ride if that was you smdh

[themooddisorders]

What if the wipers stopped working?

[thethugyone]

You gave the white guy a ride AFTER the storm without any hesitation; however, when the black man who asked you for a ride at the HEIGHT of the storm, you made up a ridiculous excuse and denied him.

You are just a horrible person.

[BASSxACE]

@thethugyone He thought he was a gang member, give him a break. Black ppl are scary. (sarcasm) JK lol. That was fucked up tho.

[PetreckMusic]

@thethugyone my exact thoughts, the guy states how many people got killed and when one asked him for help he just goes - no chance buddy. nice one, DISLIKE!

[bnvn1]

@thethugyone Really? Maybe because I got back to the hotel and took out all the survival gear from the back seat? When I gave him a ride, he rode in the back seat because I had five 6 gallon fuel cans in there the day before along with a ton of gear. After the storm, I filled up the truck and gave the fuel cans to some cops at the airport. I also took out all the survival gear and put it back in my hotel since I knew where I was going to be and where I could get back to.

[jdigga2012]

@thethugyone that was the beginning of the neglect of the people of New Orleans! the line he gave about the hotels further down the street with "people just hanging out there". talking to the man as if he was directing him to a party or something. some people's moral compass is so fucked up it's unreal. seems all for personal gain, Amazing footage though

[Svenza]

@thethugyone This is just unbelievable how stupid black people are!!! HE has said it several times already: he had no room! Biggest racist are black people! Fckn disgusting.

Great video btw.

[thethugyone]

Wow, someone asked you for help and you denied him????? What do you mean you had "no room" in your truck?! BULLSHIT! Racist asshole (btw I'm WHITE). SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[bnvn1]

@thethugyone Really? There was Three cameras in the front seat, one bolted to the passenger seat to get the POV footage, the second was a web streaming camera, the third was the camera I had shooting out the side windows and that I would put on the tripod. Add in the fact that I had a cooler for food in front. Back seat and third row was survival gear that included 30 Gal of fuel, week of food, 20 gal water, clothes, tools, computers and stuff. There was only one seat, MINE!

[MidnightJazzLover23]

I'm picturing someone trying to drive through all that debris while following traffic laws....LOL.

[GarshardJeVard]

Did that guy have a pig?

[themooddisorders]

@GarshardJeVard Yes, It was Trent Reznor. He has a thing for pigs! NIN fans get the joke

[bnvn1]

@GarshardJeVard Yes

[GarshardJeVard]

Great documentary. I watched a 9/11 documentary two days before watching this and was thinking how similar and equally suspenseful they were before you even mentioned it. Especially the part where you're showing the day before Katrina hits and people are acting like it's nothing. That part reminded me of seeing people going back into Tower 2 of the WTC, thinking it was safe after Tower 1 was hit.

[bassplayer2011ify]

@GarshardJeVard which 9/11 doc did you watch because there are tons of em

[svhwdwnut]

hope that french guy & others in the airport were able to get home

[muffinkissesxxx]

this is really amateur

[Riiye]

I can't believe this only has 7,000 views. Amazing documentary and incredibly dangerous to film.

[428ghost]

Excellent coverage of the event. The doc could be tightened up in the editing to focus the story a little more on one aspect or another of the disaster. The narration also needs to some polishing, but overall the makings of an outstanding documentary.

[Counterbrilliance]

Poor stupid people. They had no idea what was instore...

[fetishalchemy]

I wouldn't have let the guy in my car either. Someone who is out on foot in nothing but a t-shirt and jersey walking around in gale force winds after a state of emergency has been declared hours earlier is either stupid or the most unlucky person on earth. "down the road a ways" is not how I would give the location of the house I had JUST come from if it was underwater. yet he was able to get out and get ALL the way to where the cameraman was but then needed a ride? Something ain't right there.

[simcitymaker3]

nice doc

[brandonp4]

I have to say this documentary should have more views, this is an incredible view of the storm, absolutely fantastically well done.

[jennrobinson24]

I live on the MS coast and I thought the video was good but why no footage of MS immediately after and 9 months later? I understand N.O. is a bigger story but MS coast devastated completely. There was no area left untouched from LA border to Alabama border.

[prettyprincex601]

This is the worst storm in history.

[MaitreTsu]

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[GarshardJeVard]

@MaitreTsu They're never going to have it there.

[MaitreTsu]

@GarshardJeVard Thats only your opinion, not fact thank you for your input though, Viva La Nouvelle Orleans

[Jentheledge100]

you didnt put that man in the vehicle when he asked for help ?? OMG.... shame on you...

Great documentary but very sad you didnt move something to put that man out of the weather...

[bnvn1]

@Jentheledge100 Why? Just one block down there were dozens of cops and fire fighters at the hotel, Did you not see the people drinking in the street, the crazy looking dude with his pants falling down before down?

[ldskjfow]

@Jentheledge100 i agree with you.. thats ridiculous..

[bnvn1]

@Jentheledge100 There was a hotel with 50 cops to help him down the street. I was there to document everything.

[bnvn1]

@Jentheledge100 Again as I have said, there was no room. It was a one seat SUV with camera gear mounted in the front right. Back seat was full of computer, camera and survival gear and the rear had 30 gallons of fuel, water and more survival gear. I don't go out to chase to play EMS, I'm a one man video docu crew and the ride only had one seat until I took everything out the next day after I made it to the hotel and filled up with the spare gas to make room.

[4EMD12]

@bnvn1 your a horrible person!

[keyanage]

g00d

[XLValenciaXL]

Amazing documentary, I'm an american living in Scotland and it was disgusting to see how foreign media portrayed new orleans and the united states with titles on the news channels "America turned into a 3rd world country in less then 24 hours" and "america letting there own people die" They never showed many emergency works it just looked like no one cared and everyone let the people of new orleans suffer and die. But you didn't see any of the those S*** talking countries trying to help.

[ceridwengwyon]

it's really a great documentary. thank you for sharing it!

[StarrKitty1973]

One of the best and most in depth I've seen on youtube. Thank you guys for risking your lives this way to document this.

[IceManLikeGervin]

Excellent upload- truth >> lies!!

[wataburger1]

I would love to have the courage you do to go out in the middle of the storm..

[shiezoli]

Stunning Documentary ! Thanks for Sharing !

[pugdogy]

@ bnvn1,,,amazing film,,,but are you CRAZY,,,then you were driving in the floods and this water is coming up over your hood,,you could have been killed, no video film is worth that price,,,

[bnvn1]

@pugdogy yeah thats why I was trying to get the heck out of their before it get deeper.

[beckydyson98]

i seriosly wouldn't like to be there!!! it was a great video!!!

[LostNawlinsNative]

I've seen a lot of videos on YouTube about Katrina but this one is by far the best. Watched start to finish. Born and raised in New Orleans I knew every street, every landmark as you were escaping the city. Veterans Blvd., Canal St. All of it. Much of my family still lives there and I don't think we've seen any video this detailed. Thanks! I returned there six weeks after the storm and was amazed. The city was like a ghost town. No birds, no traffic. Weird. Thanks for the great documentary.

[1075mar]

Amazing video.. My breathtaking moment was when the underwater camera captured how the water from the sea comes really fast to the surface. It reminds me of the tsunami effect. What happened to the camera? Did u leaved it? Or it was taken by chris himself?

Salute for both of you. Keep up the good work!

[bnvn1]

@1075mar Chris had a death grip on the camera and brought it back inside with him after they were outside before the eye hit.

[darepow]

Thank you for this great documentary. It would be good to see another one taken in 2011 about the state of the recovery in New Orleans in the past 5 years. Great reporting, awfully sad to watch. From Australia.

[fall3nxanarchy]

what truck were u using and what tires?

[bnvn1]

@fall3nxanarchy It was a Chevy SUV

[bnvn1]

@fall3nxanarchy A rental

[MidnightJazzLover23]

@bnvn1 LOL. The rental company prolly got that back and looked at it and were like "what the fuck...?"

You make driving through a hurricane look incredibly easy too.

[A2dashawn]

that was a very shocking storm i wonder if the vehicles got pushed away because the trees did that is sad for the people who died and all those poor familys that had to suffer of sadness i am heart broken by that

[GABRIELJACMEL]

People of the ninth ward that included white, blacks and other's got the short end of the stick. My question to you was that you told the gentlement in the beginning of the storm that you had no room. But, you drove the guy at the end to his family home what sup with that?

[bnvn1]

@GABRIELJACMEL That is a very good question. During the storm, I had all my gear with me to broadcast from the storm, 30 gal of fuel, 10 gal of water, and food and survival gear. The back of the SUV was packed full of gear. The back seats were full of gear and the front seat had the computer and GPS tracking and live video gear. After the storm, I made it back to the hotel and was able to unload my gear into my hotel. When I was filming the aftermath, I didn't have all the stuff with me.

[GABRIELJACMEL]

Excellent job, I enjoyed the documentary very much, I liked the fact that how you presented both side of the stories. But, from what I saw your documentary the rescue effort was not organized which was accurately protrayed by the media. You were able to get around in your truck and gps, so I do not know why emergency personnel was not doing the same? All I saw in your video was one just one or two police car maybe the same cop in the beginning of the storm.

[kalie525]

huricane andrew was wers but catrina was more devastating

[Mradamjohnboy]

Only thing not covered was the vehicle the reporter drove; An outside view would have gave more insight to the flooding.

Nevertheless, great reporting.

Last scene was 9 months later- no public returned? Not sure what I would have done if it were me.

[HaloStrikes]

wy does this has so few views!

[bnvn1]

@HaloStrikes We only put this on line a while ago and have not promoted it at all. Feel free to tell all your friends about. :-)

[munoco]

Absolutely amazing video!! Thumbs up!!

[bnvn1]

@munoco Thanks for check it out.

[Czartog]

That was pretty good, that was quite the escape from downtown. I can't believe u weren't swearing more!

[bnvn1]

@Czartog Thank's, after five years, I was able to publish this with Chris to show the world what really happened.