A Look At Six Flags New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina Forced It To Close
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- čas přidán 14. 02. 2017
- Nearly 12 years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans, one abandoned structure still stands: the once-vibrant Six Flags amusement park. The place that once brought happiness and laughter to thousands of children and families now looks grim and dilapidated, and a shell of what it once was. When the park closed in August 2005 as the hurricane loomed, it was assumed the amusement park would re-open a few days later, but it remains shuttered. #InsideEdition
There's something about a ferris wheel that significantly dramatizes abandoned areas.
I imagine that in horror movies
COD4 intro :-)
Kind of like the Chernobyl Ferris wheel
Reminds me of zombieland
Ky Md 700th like 🙂
Imagine how fast that ferris wheel was spinning during the storm 😬
😬That’s scary to think about
That’d be so fun!
@@lachellee you would fly to paris
@@akileshNY u can’t tell me spinning fast on a ride don’t seem fun 😁
@@lachellee not to me, my nausea would be hell
Fun fact: there was a roller coaster here that survived Katrina and still operates today. It was called Batman: The Ride and it's a standard B&M inverted coaster with the normal Batman layout. It was shipped to Six Flags Fiesta Texas a few years after the storm and now goes by the name Goliath. It survived because the station was far enough above the water line.
I’d be scared to ride it but I’m happy to hear it was intact
That’s cool, I am going there in a few weeks, can’t wait to ride it
I rode it 😳😳
Six flags magic mountain I remember the was a Looney tunes right but the statues look dead they look faded maybe from the hurricane Katrina they never bothering fixing them
Really? I've rode Goliath and its one of my favorite rides at Fiesta Texas!
I spent so much of my childhood there. It breaks my heart to see it like this.
Lmao
Well Houston closed down Astroworld for no goddamn reason about the same time. How do you think we feel?
@@microbios8586 ya I saw videos. That place was huge and now its gone while this one remains siting but not in use.
@@microbios8586 Well sorry they aren’t talking about how u felt. They’re talking about how THEY felt.
I know how you feel. They closed down wanna-do city and Nickelodeon hotel, 2 of my favorite childhood places that were in every commercial, just gone like the wind
it looks perfect for American Horror Story
Jasmine A that's exactly what I was thinking!
Jasmine A Where they go back to New Orleans and have the vampires from season 5 and the witches from season 3 battle.
Jasmine A. yes it is or perfect for a The walking dead seen
Jasmine A you read my mind
Jasmine A
I'm late
But we have coven which is set in new Orleans and freakshow which is a carnival theme and actually filmed in Louisiana.
Hurricane Katrina turned it to a water park 🌊🌊🌊
Edze awm hahaha
XD
Edze awm I was 3 month-old wend Hurricane Katrina turned
Edze awm that’s not funny
Lol
"It still spins in the wind" gave me chills
UPDATE: Jazz land the park that was originally there before Six Flags is trying to get permission to rebuild the park.
@Glamrockbons GOODBYE 💀
I really hope six flags chooses to rebuild
they should make a scary movie there
Erick Loeza yea
they have. they've made multiple movies there. including the terrible Percy Jackson sequel no one asked for
Erick Loeza they made part of Jurassic world thare
yea!
Erick Loeza I think they did. I'm not sure what its called though.
tbh it looks really beautiful and haunting. ..I would love to go and explore it and maybe camp there with a few friends.
+Undecided uh no. The devils my great buddy and he sticks to haunting your house
Phandøm! At the chemical fall øut bøy your crazy
Isabel blah true and why the heck is there so many hurricanes Canada better not get one or I'm out like no thxs
Lol you can't camp there is security that sometimes comes and looks through the park
pphancakess Ok, keep dreaming
It's so sad. I went to six flags in New Orleans when I was 1 years old the week before it happened. We had a good time. But I don't think it'll ever get fixed again☹️We evacuated to Texas and stayed there for a couple of months until everything was over.But we had very little damage done to our house.
how’d u remember lmao
@@jetsopp my parents told me 💀
Man, Katrina was literally on my 13th birthday, and I’m from New Orleans, born and raised, the memories
The new call of duty zombies graphics look so damn realistic!
sike2378 really dude
sike2378 omg
sike2378 I know!
sike2378 haha lol
sike2378 I was just gonna say something like that
12 years late.
carter kench ikr
carter kench 14 years late*
Llama&eagles Don’tmix! He made that comment 3 years ago. So for him it was 12 years ago.
15 years later
Well I’m 15 so!
I remember going here at 3 years old. Then I remember driving back into New Orleans and seeing the park just thinking, "I can't wait to go to six flags"
This makes me so sad! Especially the ferris weel! It's like the slow spinning from the wind is it's way of crying, missing, and hoping people will ride it again
" and the ferris wheel still spins in the wind..."
**dun dun duuuunnnn**
*tortilla bag falls*
"Haha.. Hurricane Katrina!! More like Hurricane Tortilla!"
Cube Stacker 👏👏👏👏
Lucila I thought it was the funniest video ever for a while
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🖒🖒🖒
Cube Stacker t h a n k y o u
🤗
I’ve been there when it was six flags and to this day the city of New Orleans will not sell the property so that another park can be built.
I am definitely taking at least one of those abandoned prizes for every time I’ve been jipped at those games.
Weelll, they were submerged in water for a few weeks and now exposed to the elements for 16 years. Wouldn’t recommend
@@thedinogamer_fn3073 she wasn't being serious forntite kid
@@morganlimes ok ok I made my channel name 2 years ago I’m a Pokémon kid
@@thedinogamer_fn3073 nice
Damn. Think about how much money six flags put into that amusement park and now it's completely ruined.
Roler95 hi fellow philly fan.
like million dollars but they sued their insurance company.
Kanra they spent way more than a million
They've got so many parks, and have probably forgot about this one
If they a had the money they can remodel it.
exploring with josh need to come here
Trelayna Jones He did already, like 2 years ago.
Trelayna Jones the proper people have a video on it too
Trelayna Jones he did hahah
Trelayna Jones
exactly
Yeah!!
New Orleans has got to be the creepiest place in America
Big factz
Tigre Lily I live in New Orleans and I can confirm
Tigre Lily he’ll no it’s the best sea food yummy your just jelles
The best food
This made me almost cry 😭
I was 4 when Katrina hit :( my family evacuated to Tennessee and my school and home were destroyed. We lived in a trailer in the driveway for months while we rebuilt our house, I had to finish pre-K at a different school. That park WAS THE BEST.
lauren nicole i was 5 when hurricane Katrina hit
I was 8 when it happened and we came to MS close to TN
Lmao
I was in a tent when it hit,the roof of the tent was touching my face
I was 5/6 months
i live in Louisiana and New Orleans isnt a bad place. more history than youll ever know. its memories. i was 4 when the hurricane happened and remember everything.
Lanie Sloan New Orleans is a wonderful place for tourists. I was 1 years old when hurricane Katrina happened
Same lol i was 5
lanie deshay sloan I was 2 when it happened and oddly enough I rember that when it was safe to return home, I rember the MREs we had to eat.
lanie deshay sloan I was in mom’s stomachs
Imagine if he saw one of those CZcamsrs doing one of those 24 hour challenges and they jump scared each other
I remember coming here a few weeks before the hurricane ... sad that the hurricane made it close
I watched people exploring this and it was so sad :-(
Was it sam and colby?
they should rebuild it, I know it's not going to happen but still it be'll nice to see it rise from the ashes of destruction, and yes I know, "what if a hurricane happens again?"
Malcolm Berman *cancelled*
EmoMexican my brother said he wanted to build it just for good
I would love to see it again
Omg this Just brought me to 😭 i remember going there when I was 16 years old I had just move to Baton Rouge Louisiana it was an amazing memory i don’t live there anymore I’m back in Michigan I love Louisiana and will always have the great memories.♥️
Same! We had season passes. I was 13-16 when we went 😭😭
Who is here after finding out that hurricane ida hit
What a shame. Looked like such a fun place. Just imagine how good it could've been now if the hurricane didn't mess it up like that!
It's sad how a place full of happiness where people loved going with family and friends is now just been abandoned🙀
We used to call six flags Jazzland
My dad was in New Orleans during the storm Katrina I’m so happy hes still alive
I miss that place
RAY DOG GAMING why did it never re open
Kuruma Uzamaki No it did. I watched a pretty cool documentary about it.
Well if I remember correctly I think the park was going through Financial problems
Why did I comment that. I was only like 2 months old when it closed
i still remember when it was Jazzland
0:39 more like hurricane tortilla
as a person that lives in lousisiana and has relatives in New Orleans I'd like to thank you for saying the name correctly
I remember going to this six flags and actually riding the zipher. It's a shame they don't re open it it has amazing memories.
That rollercoaster was called the The Mega Zeph! Not "The Zepher." The "Zepher" was a rollercoaster that was built for Pontchartrain Beach, an earlier theme/amusement park that lasted from the 1920's thru the early 80's in NEW ORLEANS. I'm from here I would know, you're welcome!
I noticed that too. OG 👊🏻
I saw the go cart I rode on and I also saw the exact seat I was in on one of the coasters. I remember getting ice cream there. I also remember walking onto the zephyr (don’t mind spelling cuz idk how) with no vines it was all clear walking
Ikr it’s so sad! Every time I pass this I wish I was alive to see when it was happy :(
0:33-0:35 that's not six flags! That's Busch Gardens!
toucan Yep.........SSSSSHHHHHEIKRAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
toucan lmao it is i just went to husch garden on friday😂😂
toucan that’s what I thought...I knew it looked like shekra
GP man
That was actually six flags. But it does look a LOT like Busch Gardens!!
Tears.... I miss Six Flags which was first JazzLand 😧
I had never been too this six flags but me and my family visited New Orleans in late July 2005 before moving too Baton Rouge in October that same year. Never could have predicted the tragedy that was about too unfold and that the park would be destroyed in just two weeks.
I love inside addition I watch inside edition every day🤩
Hurricane Katrina more like
Hurricane TORTILLA!🤣🤣🤣
😐 ha ha ha
I live 5-7 minute away from the park😭😱
I have been waiting for this moment for real and I found it now because I was doing research in class about Hurricane Katrina
Ugh, my Mimi told me that hurricane Katrina was horrible in Mississippi which is where I am. I felt bad while she was telling me about it because she started crying. She told me that she doesn't want me or my little cousins to go through that...
:Then it became A Hurracain Katrina,
Me:MORE LIKE HURRACAIN TORTILLA!!!
.....il go back to my howl now ._. ......
When u realize the coaster is a Vekoma boomerang.... 😂
went here as a kid with my parents. this was my childhood
Everytime I drive past this place I cry and remember the fun I would have there but now it’s all gone 😭😭😢😢😢😢R.I.P six flags I’m so sad that it sits there as a memory of happy times and sad
Same 😭
i used to go there all the time as a kid :(
I never knew mafia 3 got the idea from this park
That Looks So Cool
Hurricane Katrina...
*MORE LIKE HURRICANE TORTILLA*
I honestly didn't even know tht there was a six flags in New Orleans 😭
And if you were smart you would never go there, the thugs would rob, rape, shot, kill you, in that order.
@@ericdraven7185 Ok youtube default
Its so weird because a couple of hours ago, I had barely learned about hurricane kachina XD
Galaxy Mew The actual funny thing is how you spelled Katrina
Galaxy Mew 'Kachina' Oh my God. And you just learned about Hurricane Katrina? Seriously, you must live under a rock.
ExpoEdits lol no btw sorry if I spelled it wrong it was
autocorrected
how do you get kachina from katrina....
1:32 I would take the plushies if that was me lol
love the vibes :)
00:33 showing video footage of Busch Gardens Tampa - Sheikra. lol fail
Six Flags New Orleans was never a good park, hence why they never re-opened. They probably got a better deal with the insurance money than they would had they opened it again.
London CPH thank you I was waiting for someone to point that out
It was for some people... you can't just assume something is bad
Jazzland is re-opening the park.
Me too
This park was under performing and if it wasn't for the Hurricane this park would either have been closed or sold off to someone else. Six Flags was reluctant that it happened this way.
At least it wasn't Hurricane Tortilla.
0:32 lol that Busch Gardens in Tampa Florida. Roller coaster: Sheikra
I'm 17 I'm from new Orleans and I went there at six flags when I was 5. what I remember most about that park was the spongbob ride lol
“Hurricane Katrina.... more like hurricane tortilla”💀
I’m not making fun of this btw🤷🏽♀️
Yoooo I get itttt😂😂
Miranda Strickland yeaaa🤣🤣🤣
Hmm I wonder what the place is
-idk-
LOOK AT THE TITLE!
Wow they did good as clean up went , cause I had a good time when I visited in 2011
"There's not much amusement in the closing of an amusement park." I rode so many of those rides. This is weird to see nearly 2 decades later.
50000 people used to live here, now it’s a ghost town.
Way more than that!!!
Who needs special permission when you could just break in?
Not like I'm trying to get you arrested or anything
goofy ass comment 💀💀💀
Fun fact: When the Hornets relocated to New Orleans, Katrina hit, so they relocated to OKC and played in Chesapeake Arena.
I’ve ridden both of the defunct coasters here, but at different parks
Whewww I live pretty close to that lol
iTurtleBoy Omg me too!do you live in villange de est?or willow brook?😀😆
iTurtleBoy I live
its not lol alot of people died in this storm
That ferris wheel reminds me of chernobyl 😕
I right outside New Orleans,and this thing is no joke.
United forever and friendship and labour
hurricane katrina! more like hurricane tortilla!
i’m sorry
rip vine
jayden marie vine will be missed
Why can't they demolish it?
Same reason your parents didn't abort you. May be ugly but still has some sentimental value!
That cost money it’s cheaper just to leave it there
money money
Hashiyan because it is a reminder of the Hurricane
Its part of history
That the Same year that Six Flags AstroWorld closed 1968 to 2005. the owner of Six Flags INC was Premier Park INC. the CEO of Six Flags back name was Kieran Burke he RUN Six Flags INC Down Under.....
My heart is in this theme park...
they should rebuild six flags new orleans
I mean it would be dumb to rebuild they stay getting hit w hurricanes
What's that rollercoaster shown at 0:31 with the orange track and blue support frames?
The parkay be destroyed, but 2 roller coasters were saved and relocated.
Batman: The Ride now operates as Goliath at Six Flags Fiesta Texas and Roadrunner's Express is now Roadrunner Express at Six Flags Magic Mountain
new orleans decided the citizens should never have fun and never reopened it (do not take this comment seriously)
Fire Phoenix Comedy Zone Uhm no that's not why that place would have to be rebuilt from scratch do you know how expensive that is?
omgubler you and your likers do not know jokes
More like huricane tortillaaaa!
I learn this in school and WOW!!
creepy yet amazing
Chill this task is for Exploring With Josh
Wild Shrimpo He did already, 2 years ago
Miriam M I know I'm saying it's only a thing for him
Trigger😭 but this place was slowly shutting down before Katrina even hit.
yeah your right lol with your fine ass lol
Did anyone notice they used Busch gardens sherika roller coasters footage or was that a ride there that looks just like it
The memories....😭😭😭
I agree 😭😭😭
hurting katrina? more like hurricane tortilla!
:/ laziness
Six Flags was going to abandon this park regardless of whether the hurricane happened or not. The previous management that bought it had gotten fired and the new management didn't want it, it was on the same path as Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom.
I used to live in New Orleans I visited last week that sign that says closed for storm is still there