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Bob Windt left Sunday for New Orleans with an 18-foot hovercraft and two other men, to help in the massive rescue effort after Hurricane Katrina. Their hovercraft can carry 1,000 pounds.
These are some of his observations... 1. Stench, guns and confusion 2. The stink of fetid water, feces and dead bodies was heavy in the air 3. The water there is just absolutely terrible It smells like a combination of rotting corpses and sewage. 4. We had two police officers on board with their weapons 5. They felt a sense of disorganization among military units. 6. It took quite awhile before we got assigned to anything. It seems like there are people down there who aren't communicating very well. 7. On Tuesday they were waiting for a military convoy to pass when they saw a family of three pushing a shopping cart loaded with their possessions. 8. He was amazed by all the water. The hovercraft went over areas where cars were visible in the murk. It didn't look like streets when I was going over them.
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