[NautiNurse]

Thanks for checking in, and welcome to FR.

[Uncle Ike]

Thanks for checking in, and welcome to FR."

Thank you for the welcome.

After 4 or 5 days of being immersed in this and other threads, I forget that I'm still a Newbie. :)

[bwteim]

'morning, all.

First, an early morning report.... deserves its own post. Don't know if anyone posted this yet.

Bold type face added. RKBA Bump.

= = = = NOLA - WWL Updates as they come in on Katrina

4:15 A.M. - (AP) -- When night falls, Charlie Hackett climbs the steps to his boarded-up window, takes down the plywood, grabs his 12 gauge shotgun and waits.

He is waiting for looters and troublemakers, for anyone thinking his neighborhood has been abandoned like so many others across the city. Two doors down, John Carolan is doing the same on his screened-in porch, pistol by his side. They are not about to give up their homes to the lawlessness that has engulfed New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

" We kind of together decided we would defend what we have here and we would stay up and defend the neighborhood," says Hackett, an Army veteran with a snow-white beard and a business installing custom kitchens.