584-When Hurricane Katrina Came Through Town
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2018
⏱️ 79 minutes
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Summary
Hurricane Katrina taught us a huge number of important lessons. In today's show, we listen to the account of a survivor.
Forum thread: https://www.zombiehunters.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=16627
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 0:12.0 | My name is Joshua, I am your host and today we continue our |
| 0:15.4 | series related to National Preparedness Month in honor of September |
| 0:19.0 | which is officially here in the United States the National Preparedness Month. |
| 0:23.3 | And today I'm to share with you the experiences of one man as he went through Hurricane |
| 0:28.4 | Katrina more than 10 years ago. |
| 0:31.7 | A couple minutes of preamble here before I read this particular man's experiences. |
| 0:36.3 | Hurricane Katrina was one of the worst natural disasters in our modern era in terms of loss of life, impact, etc. It was absolutely |
| 0:45.8 | awful. But what often happens is it's hard to get the stories of people who were involved in |
| 0:52.1 | it up close. And Hurricane Katrina was unique in the length of the devastation. |
| 0:58.1 | With most hurricanes, most natural disasters, their effects are relatively localized and very quickly after a disaster, other first |
| 1:07.3 | responders, other companies can come in after the fact and get things put together pretty quickly. |
| 1:12.3 | And then of course we all go on and we forget about after the fact and get things put together pretty quickly. |
| 1:13.2 | And then of course we all go on and we forget about the people whose houses blew away or whose property |
| 1:17.4 | burned up etc. |
| 1:19.2 | And those stories are just kind of lost to the next drama of the day. But Katrina was different. It was unique in the way |
| 1:26.3 | that the circumstances of the disaster unfolded and it was a very long disaster. It was a very |
| 1:31.5 | long time and especially as relates to things like the |
| 1:35.1 | physical violence that happened, the loss of life, the looting, the just the |
| 1:40.6 | interactions with people, it was a really really bad disaster and a number of years ago I came |
| 1:47.4 | across this account in an online forum it comes from a I guess kind of a prepper survivalist form called zombie hunters.org. |
| 1:55.4 | I'll link to it in the show notes for today's show. |
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