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To: kennedy
Joy Schovest, 55, was in the apartment complex with her boyfriend, Joe Calvin, when the water began rising. They stayed despite a mandatory evacuation order.

"The water got higher and higher," she said, breaking into tears. "It pushed all the doors open and we swam out. We grabbed a lady and pulled her out the window and then we swam with the current. It was terrifying. You should have seen the cars floating around us. We had to push them away when we were trying to swim."

I just don't understand why these folks don't leave!! Yes, it's going to be awful!! That's why there was an evacuation order! Darn darn darn!! I hate that so many have died needlessly.

16 posted on 08/30/2005 3:50:35 PM PDT by StarCMC (Old Sarge is my hero...doing it right in Iraq! Vaya con Dios, Sarge.)
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