Floodlines - Podcast Rankings and reviews

When Hurricane Katrina hit I was freshly 21 and living in New England. I had heard things and rumblings about what was going on in New Orleans but as a 21 year old only focused on myself and my own problems in NE, the impact of Katrina felt millions of miles away. In recent years I’ve become very interested in educating myself not only on American history but also on the systemic racism this country was founded on. I found this podcast after watching a doc on the aftermath of the levees breaking and this is a superb follow up to that doc. Hearing how the government and the media let so many people down on top of the gross and blatant racism, still completely boggles my mind. I find myself wishing I could go back in time and tell my younger self to pay more attention. At least now I have the ability to educate myself and hear the voices of those who actually experienced it in real time. We can’t stop this kind of thing from happening in the future until we all wake up and actively work to prevent this. Thank you to this host for this podcast. Not only is he a great narrator but thank you for giving the people that were there a place to tell the real stories.

This podcast is more of a movie for your ears. The sound effects and music added is next level. The storytellers are top-notch, and the stories are riveting. I always recommend this podcast to friends and colleagues. I’m going back through the podcast for the second time in two years, and it’s just as good as the first time!

A humane and moving attempt at truth and reconciliation that acknowledges in a deep and meaningful way those who were victimized by the US Government’s poorly constructed flood infrastructure, inadequate disaster relief planning, and woefully incompetent Katrina response as well as post-disaster capitalist greed and property confiscations and our larger society’s ignorance and passive acceptance of it all…

I work for a federal recovery agency and was on the ground in Louisiana with in a week of the initial devastation. I’m halfway through episode 3 and had to stop and “scream” into the void. For 17 years I have been wanting someone to do a deep investigation into why, how and who HIRED Blackwater mercenaries to guard (5 per center!!) the disaster recovery centers I worked in during our recovery work. The VP at the time had a monetary involvement in Halliburton (who helped hire many temporary workers); did he have financial ties to Eric Prince? The out of control narrative on the news re crime makes me wonder if the VP had a hand in that. I didn’t experience any feelings of concern the entire time I was there off and in for 3 years. (Many of my idiot coworkers were brainwashed). I’m going to now finish the of the podcast. Thank you Mr. Newkirk for this very important reporting.