St. Bernard Parish-One Year After the Federal Flood

[sfgiants3]

Thanks for sharing this. As a tourist stuck in the Superdome during Katrina and the levee failures this was especially poignant for me.

Paul Harris

Author, "Diary From the Dome, Reflections on Fear and Privilege During Katrina" 

[leeroynaggins]

Goodbye St. Bernard...

[STB5041]

Thanx Katrina, now my city looks like Detroit.

[zack2452]

i went to trist middle. for 6th and 7th grade... now im a junior in high school... seems like yesterday. God bless STB!

[OfficialAlexisCyrus]

"This used to be the place i called home, now its a distaster" I felt like this when i was there, and Cool.. you showed the trailor park i lived in! I went to Our Lady Of Promt Succor! Anyway this video makes me sad :( But i cant beleive how good it looks now! This is alot of information but i dont care!

God bless St. Bernard!

[askabbyadvice]

St.Bernard looks good know!

[KatrinaVictim2005]

I use to live in chalmette/St Bernard... The School at 3:05 was a private school named st marks in wich i went to

[masterofbur]

Great job on this video, I am still not back home but will be soon. Showing this video to people have opened there eyes a little to what they forget!! Thanks!

[trecool158]

Thank you. This video was well done. I'm home now but I'll never forget, and I don't want to. I don't dwell on it, but I never want to forget. It makes me realize every day what is important.

[Mightymopar1973]

Bringing back bad memories. I still call Chalmette home. We were lucky, that we were able to buy another home (bran new) 18 months later

[mkrass13]

That's my home too!!!! I'm crying.....really! God Bless St. Bernard.

[moviefreak1367]

Can't you talk about any of the improvements in Chalmette??

[scoutp]

The video is a year old.

[InfectedVader26]

Thats my home town baby!

WE COMIN BACK!

[stephanie180]

i love "da parish". i live there, and dont want to live anywhere else. ive grown up there and everytime i leave i miss it and everyone that lives there.

I LOVE ST. BERNARD!

[viragemasta]

Why did it take days to classify this disaster as a 'disaster'?!

There is something wrong with America. These are the paramaters to judge prosperity and wealth by. Not the strenght of an army or dow jones. The white house sure have their priorities mixed up. There is something wrong.

all our sympathy for the victims and those still being hit by the aftermath of Katrina,

viragemasta

Belgium

[killercool54321]

It actually was declared a disaster two days before it ever happened.

[viragemasta]

I saw Spike Lee's doc/movie on Katrina yesterday on Belgian (EU) national TV. We were watching and it suddenly became very quiet.

Man... we never realized it was that bad, people waiting days for a meal, drinking water, busses, FEMA, the army (so very quickly deployable on many other occasions), national guard.

[howtofixeverything]

I just got back from St. Bernard Parish yesterday....There's still so much that need to be done.

[TheNoTown]

anderson cooper FROM CNN IS A SELLOUT!! Did you see his latest report about New Orleans? He didn't talk about the slow recovery & real issues. He talked about broken fema trailors being sold on auction websites,he didn't mention the school system or the slow recovery.

These kids in New Orleans are getting messed over by our government officials and fake ass anderson cooper doesn't really care. He said he was "keeping them honest" but he's all talk.

copy and paste this msg EVERYWHERE

[DetectiveConanFan]

That's my home!!!

[xxwilkill4bcrichxx]

I lived in "da parish" before and i wouldn't want to live n e where else. Today (April 19, 2007) we're doing a little better. we have 3 grocry stores a walgreens multiple restraunts and all bank branches are open. The people who are dertermined to come back already have and most have there house completed or near there. Were working on it... St. BErnard will be back and better than ever!

[stasigrace]

Excellent video! I just returned from St. Bernard (was there April 3-8 2007) and although maybe a few more businesses are open, it's still pretty much as you described. It's simply obscene how this part of our country is ignored. Thank you for your good work and for getting the word out!

[cart123948]

The best pick-up line right after Katrina, was,"Hey baby, I've got air conditioning."

[youfoundmyshoe88]

Gotta love "da parish"

[hummtide]

Sad part is, this was the first salvo in Mother Nature destroying all of SE Louisiana. It wont stop. Ever since us people thought the mighty miss could be coralled and leveed up, it all but sealed SE LA's fate.. and it will be destroyed. It was good to see The Times Picayune finally having a special edition done concerning the receding coastline. In any case, IMHO, Eastern N.O. and St bernard should be abandoned as they will only get more vunerable from future storms.

[chrisdier]

we can prevent things like this from happening again with proper levee systems and better planning. we should not have to abandon anything

[killercool54321]

No Levee system could ever really protect st. bernard. Its the swamp for gods sake, its gonna flood.

[chrisdier]

levee systems have protected the parish for a while, it wasn't until the building and mismanagement of MRGO did the levees experience the problems they did.  and it's not a swamp, it has a few swamps/bayous around it, but the parish isn't a swamp.

[shadowslave9891]

this is where i grew up

[MartyH65]

Great video. I was a volunteer with a SAR group that responded with the USS Tortuga a week after the storm. The people in St Bernards are wonderful. I believe with their spirit, they will recover. I am sorry that is such a long road back for many of them.

[raith77]

i lived down the road by the sebastian roy elementary school, we had nuttin left *nuttin* we had to buy a new house and we moved back but we left with a over night bag thinking it was going to be like ivan, well i guess we where wrong we went to bugglosa, we had about 2 inches in the house and we had roof damage, we are recovering but slow..

[railfunny]

A very moving presentation with some excellent data. I was in New Orleans last weekend, and I was amazed at how bad conditions still are outside of the downtown core. 530 days after Katrina, I saw entire neighborhoods in St. Bernard Parish that are still condemned, homelessness, and many other problems. I made a short video of what I saw from the train, and I hope others like us will keep covering the rebuilding, since the mainstream media isn't.

[simba157]

Appreciate your insightful narration and stats. It reminds me of what was and am glad to see it has improved since; Bayou Road resident

[LAyellowdog]

This was a first rate mini docu-video on the Parish and Katrina distuction.

One of the best I have seen on subject.

Karl

[marcia1154]

I went thru St Bernard ON the Anniversary of Katrina and was amazed at how bad things were everywhere, not just the neighborhoods. I tried to explain that to someone in the media and they really didn't seem interested. As said above the focus for recovery has been mostly on the Lower Ninth and New Orleans, but nothing is ever said about the other areas. Don't people care.

[Gemmavideo]

Heartbreaking.

[pcampo]

Great video! Not many people realize STB exists, all focus is on NOLA and STB was demolished compared to NO. Thanks for the info!

[mazieboo]

I like that you've shown our parish as being destroyed. So much focus was on New Orleans. I like the statistics that you gave, also. Yes St. Bernard will revive itself, but what you've exposed many people did not know.

[jcollins9]

You should drive back in the Vista. Much of that area is returning. Also I know there about 85 families coming back on Torres in Violet. You took a pretty pessimistic view. Maybe you should do another video pointing out the positive aspects of rebuilding in St Bernard. It will come back as a vibrant community.