"NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 8 - Ten days ago, the water rose to the front steps of their house. Four days ago, it began falling. But only now is the city demanding that Richie Kay and Emily Harris get out.
They cannot understand why. They live on high ground in the Bywater neighborhood, and their house escaped structural damage. They are healthy and have enough food and water to last almost a year.
They have a dog to protect them, a car with a full tank of gasoline should they need to leave quickly and a canoe as a last resort. They said they used it last week to rescue 100 people.
"We're not the people they need to be taking out," Mr. Kay said. "We're the people they need to be coordinating with."
"With police officers and federal law enforcement agents ratcheting up the pressure on residents to leave, the holdouts worry that it is just a matter of time before they are forced out.
Ms. Harris said she did not want to leave. "I haven't even run out of weed yet," she said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09holdouts.html
― scott seward (scott seward), Friday, 9 September 2005 21:20 (twenty years ago)
Haha! I want to meet this woman before the NOPD arrests her.
― Ian Riese-Moraine: Let this bastard out, and you'll get whiplash! (Eastern Mantr, Friday, 9 September 2005 21:52 (twenty years ago)
"Ms. Hall, 28, a bartender, flashed her breasts at the police vehicles that passed by, ensuring a regular flow of traffic."
New Orleans LIVES
― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Friday, 9 September 2005 23:25 (twenty years ago)