00:00And Ms. Lynette, you spoke about how the population went from 800,000 to 400,000.
00:06And before Katrina, the city was just surrounded by so much history.
00:10What do you miss most about that time before Katrina?
00:12If you've ever studied the history of New Orleans, we were here before the United States, okay?
00:19So if you are truly a New Orleanian, then you know what buildings and what monuments
00:28and things that, as kids, we could walk anywhere in the city.
00:33And you could walk past houses that were built in the 1700s.
00:38And what happened was, instead of people coming in and wanting to make these residents
00:46back into what they originally were, now we have too many Airbnbs.
00:51We have too many streets that I lost my car to a pothole on Galvest Street, all right?
01:02So when somebody says what happened, well, the pothole killed my car because it was deeper
01:07than my car was.
01:08But all we really need is we need to come together and understand that something like this, the
01:16way it happened, and Spence had a different experience because he was in a cover.
01:22He was inside the Superdome.
01:25I was on the bridge with no cover, no air blowing, just a lot of people who were desperate.
01:33And when you watched what was going on there and how I ended up actually on the bridge because
01:41the house I was in didn't get water, but I was forced out.
01:45So then I ended up taking routes that brought me from four feet of water to six to seven feet
01:51of water in different areas because the direction they sent us in to tell us that they were going
01:57to pick us up, was going away from the elevation that I was in, which was only four feet.
02:04So we ended up having to hold on to boats and walk through St. Bernard Avenue from Broad Street
02:10to the Circle Food Store.
02:13And trust me, the Circle Food Store was not covered by water, all right?
02:18It might have had seven, eight inches of water, but it's on high ground.
02:23And so when people say, oh, the Circle Food Store was covered with water, no, it wasn't.
02:28And the guys that were going in and out of there, they weren't looting.
02:32They were getting survival equipment, okay?
02:36So if you don't understand that if somebody's not going in a place and they got a gun and
02:43they're forcing you to do something and they're taking food or clothing because everybody was
02:48wet, you're not looking for money.
02:50You're looking for survival things that evidently were destroyed with the water.
02:56You're looking for survival things that evidently were destroyed with the water.
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