Rescued from the roof

Quote of the Day: Hurricane Victim Bernadette Washington of New Orleans “I thought we were going to die out there. We had to sleep on the ground. Use the bathroom in front of each other. Laying on that ground, I just couldn’t take it. I felt like Job.” -Bernadette Washington, a New Orleans homeowner, whose […]

Quote of the Day: Hurricane Victim Bernadette Washington of New Orleans

“I thought we were going to die out there. We had to sleep on the ground. Use the bathroom in front of each other. Laying on that ground, I just couldn’t take it. I felt like Job.”

-Bernadette Washington, a New Orleans homeowner, whose family was rescued from her roof by a helicopter and then delivered to a patch of land beneath a freeway. She was quoted in the Washington Post.


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