HURRICANE KATRINA Documentary (PART 7)

Ride walks with Janice White of the Red Cross in GROUND ZERO of the 9th Ward, talking about what the public is not being told and has been left unknown to the rest of the world. She is amazed when finding an intact glass bowl, yet the house around it is completely destroyed.

New Orleans Firefighter Adam Woodruff digs through the rubble on his daily USAR mission, however Urban Search and Rescue has turned to Recovery of the more than 1,000 missing bodies. He tells how the houses he scours for cadavers is no different than his own in New Orleans East - even as a first responding Firefighter - like over 80% of the rescuers and city itself, he lost everything he owns as well.

In Arabi, a grandmother Ride meets cries as she mourns the loss of the 100s of photographs she took of her grandchildren.

Elsewhere at GROUND ZERO of Lakeview, Ride talks to another woman, whose mother's house was directly in front of the levee break. She searches for a single whole teacup - anything in one piece to bring back to her mom.

In this episode, we see how personal loss is, and nearly no one in the city was immune - firefighter or civilian, rescuer or victim.

ABOUT THE FILM MAKER: Ride Hamilton was the only photo-journalist to never evacuate - and stay living and participating in the New Orleans community throughout Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and the electricity-less, water-less, and MRE, heat, and mosquito-filled months afterwards. While instantly becoming a citizen first-responder and the French Quarter medic the moment Katrina left on August 29, he interviewed everyone he came across. Everyone from victims in canoes, to New Orleans Firefighters on rescues and eventually dead body searches. These are their stories. The stories of heroes and victims, and what really happened and is still happening.


http://www.RideHamilton.com

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[3thwardbitch]

omg this was sad im from new orleans and it was hell on that week lol but im good now in back in my city i love this place

[151musicguy]

I feel really bad for the lady who broke her tea cup and the one whose family pictures got wet and are gone.

What about the people who lost entire FAMILIES?!?!

Fucking unbelievable.

[matikhan]

you got some real footage you should see if hbo etc will take it as it is...documentary

[MrDuffy81]

NO #6?

[flawlessjamz281]

LOL at 00:11 lookin like her crack suffered severe water damaged!!!!

[wilmaohman]

has anyone read the posting of greg palast, his 3 so called interviews? what a jackass! people all over the world read these blogs. i'm in metairie.