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Cops, troops warn holdouts in New Orleans
(AP)
Updated: 2005-09-08 15:01 Patricia Kelly was driven out of her home by flooding in the low-lying Ninth
Ward and took up residence under a tattered, dirty green-and-white-striped patio
umbrella in front of an abandoned barber shop. Despite the warnings, she refused
to leave.
"We're surviving every day, trying to tolerate the situation by the grace of
God. He's keeping us holding on just one day at a time," she said. "I'm going to
stay as long as the Lord says so. If they come with a court order, then we'll
leave."
Sgt. Joseph Boarman of the Army's 82nd Airborne Division, whose soldiers
helped coax people from their homes, said he could almost understand the
reluctance to leave: "It's their home. You know how hard it is to leave home, no
matter what condition it's in."
In the high and dry French Quarter, 48-year-old Jack Jones said he would
resist if authorities tried to force him out of the home where he has lived
since the 1970s.
While the streets were strewn with garbage, rotting food and downed power
lines, Jones kept his block pristine, sweeping daily, spraying for mosquitoes
and even pouring bleach down drains to kill germs.
Jones said the sick, the elderly and people who lack supplies should be
evacuated — but not folks like him. He has 15 cases of drinking water, a
generator, canned ravioli, wine, coffee and three cartons of Marlboros.
"I've got everything I need," he said. "I just want to be left alone."
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