"I WAS THERE" Hurricane Katrina Storm Surge - Gulfport/Biloxi, Mississippi

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Well, here we are, getting rid of myself for a golf port right on the coast. I think storm surge coming in now. These roads are going to be completely not going to be on the drive. Some surge. Surge is coming over the road. Well, this storm surge is getting pretty intense now. The winds are picking up. This is highway 90. Well, we had to make it back to the hotel. Here's the current radar loop. We're in golf port. Well, there's the golf of Mexico right there coming into our hotel. We slide apart a lot here in food. And then pressure. and Esterolon in 15C," I 56 многまだ Hellside and absolutely Argent. The water is coming up to the first floor now. The water is coming in the room through the air condition vent. Oh man. You know what? These walls are going to start coming in. Are you taking this? Yes. Give it back to my spot. Oh yeah, I hear the gun in that. All right. The gun starts. Oh yeah, it's coming up now. We're starting to get the worst part of the storm. I think the worst part is still probably about 45 minutes away. You got things going on around us now. All trees are going down. The storm's here. It's coming all the way out into the hotel. The cars are getting submerged here. I'm going to be there soon. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. The front bumper's coming off. Oh here it is getting ready to break guys. That is about to bust in quick. Here we are. We're in the lobby here of our hotel. We're completely underwater in this first storm here. There's chairs floating by. Oh, we're starting to get started here guys. We got a car that's getting ready to come right in the lobby now. Oh, hard to get out of here. The doors are breaking. Yeah, get ready guys. Get ready. Here comes a big wave dude. Oh, I got this water here. This thing is on a real quick. Big wave, big wave, big wave. Pause the storm. It's like a new floor. The water is coming up to the stairwell. It's all the way in the first floor. Oh my gosh. Alright, we're currently on the second floor. The third party comes down to the stairwell here. Yeah, five lights are coming up, we need to. The first floor is the entire room floor of a hotel under water. And it's continuing to rise. Well, the only shot I can get is our fourth floor. We're four stories up and you can see the water. The surge is dramatically risen here. We are in the heart of this is probably pretty close to the aisle. This is the aisle wall. And the aisle is probably going to be coming right over our location very soon. This is Mother Nature at her worst right here. This is looking outside our fourth floor window at the Holiday Inn in Gulfport, Mississippi. This is during the aisle wall of Hurricane Katrina. You can see the waves coming through. That's coming through the building and still causing waves like that. Because this is all blocked off on the sides. Look at that. Here we are in the fourth floor here. The roof collapsed on this building below me. See the roof broke off. The water is receiving. I think water is a bit of a gap. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. Hurricane Katrina. California. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. The roof is moving forward. This is the lobby.