From nola.com, scroll down a ways for the full article:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/tporleans/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/2005_09.html#076981
French Quarter forges on with stubborn hearts
'We're not helpless,' says cleanup crowd
By Bruce Nolan
Staff writer
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Watford, his companion, Ashley McCoy, and a few friends swept leaves and branches accumulated from Hurricane Katrina and dumped them in city trash barrels. The place looked parade-ground perfect.
"It's our neighborhood. We're not helpless," Watford said. "We can fix it ourselves. We don't have to wait for anybody."
Watford and McCoy rode out the hurricane two blocks away on Dumaine Street, and three days ago they began sweeping there, out of pride and a desire to kill the boredom.
"You should see where we live," Watford said. "Our street looks like nothing ever happened."
On Saturday, they swept St. Anne and St. Peters streets flanking Jackson Square; Sunday was for the Place John Paul.
Is this what happened to Snowball (for all those who have been wondering what happened to him)?
From same link as 874:
Agencies trying to save stranded pets
Pets may get rescued from homes
By Sandra Barbier
Staff writer
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The Jefferson Parish Animal Shelter has not received many calls about rescuing pets from homes, shelter director Bert Smith said. Whether they do "will depend on the kind of calls we get. We'll try to deal with any situation as best we can."
The shelter has been operating with a short staff and poor communications for several days, he said.
It evacuated 215 animals last Sunday to the Washington Parish Fairgrounds. The hurricane knocked out the area's water and electricity Monday. "We were sleeping in our cars," Smith said.
Shelter workers emptied the fairgrounds with the help of Best Friends, which took 130 of the animals, and individuals who volunteered to temporarily keep the rest, he said.
"We got back here Friday and were called to pick up pets at the I-10 and Causeway," where evacuees were waiting for buses to take them out of New Orleans, he said. "There were thousands and thousands of people and hundreds and hundreds of pets . . . They weren't letting them (evacuees) take their animals with them."
Smith said the human and animal misery and suffering overwhelmed shelter workers, who picked up 55 cats and dogs and a ferret. "It was back-breaking," he said. The animals were taken to Jefferson Parish's west bank animal shelter, which had water and electricity.