| With less than twenty four hours to go
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| | we had not gone to get him out of his
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| before hurricane Katrina hit land my wife
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| | house.We drove through the night. At
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| and I started to pack up the car to leave
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| | first we could not go over fifteen miles
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| St Bernard Parish Louisiana. We had to
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| | an hour across the twin spans, an eight
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| have the brakes repaired only an hour
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| | mile long bridge across the lake a bridge
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| before we left. We had to depend on the
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| | that today is largely destroyed. The
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| kindness of a neighbor who was
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| | winds came just behind us only hours
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| frantically working on the car as we
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| | later and washed the spans that weigh
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| loaded it with those things the officials
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| | thousands of tons into the water like
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| said we should take with us.We loaded a
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| | toothpicks in a bathtub. In time we got
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| few changes of clothing our important
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| | up to about fifty but not once did we
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| papers and our dog, Patches. We went to
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| | ever reach the speed limit. We arrived at
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| pick up an older gentlemen whose daughter
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| | a friends house near Birmingham Alabama
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| could not pick him up because she lived
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| | where we stayed for two days. We
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| north of Lake Ponchartrain which was
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| | contacted the old gents family and
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| already nearly impassible. He was a
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| | arranged for his family to come and pick
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| member of our church and we faithfully
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| | him up. The power went out several times
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| picked him up for every service because
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| | throughout the second night as the winds
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| he could hardly walk on his own. Looking
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| | gusted and threatened Old Birmingham.
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| back now we know he would not be alive if
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