Posted on 09/05/2005 7:33:38 PM PDT by george76
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...
Two doors down, John Carolan is doing the same on his screened-in porch, pistol by his side.
"We kind of together decided we would defend what we have here and we would stay up and defend the neighborhood..."
Many of the homes appear only slightly damaged, or even untouched.
But the neighborhoods are stunningly empty, and so quiet that they sound like a forest.
...it reminds me of Dac To."
They have not had a problem staying awake...
"Last night I had to draw down on some people," Carolan says. A car with what sounded like a crowd of drunken, partying kids came through and stopped.
"I had to come out with a flashlight in one hand, pistol in the other," he says, crossing his arms like an X. "I said: 'Who are you? Do you live here? What are you doing here?' They said, 'We're leaving.'"
Hackett, who in his 50s, lives alone, with his two cats and a bunch of neighbor's pets that he is caring for. Carolan, 46, is keeping watch with his brother, wife, son, and 3-year-old granddaughter.
In the first few days, they were especially fearful. Looters smashed windows and ransacked a discount store and a drugstore a few streets over. Three men came to Carolan's house asking about his generator and brandished a machete. He showed them his gun and they left.
"It was pandemonium for a couple of nights. We just felt that when they got done with the stores, they'd come to the homes," Hackett says. "When it's not easy pickings, they'll go somewhere else."
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"When it's not easy pickings, they'll go somewhere else."
Thank God for these people. May they stand their ground, along with the other hardy holdouts of NOLA!
"Three men came to Carolan's house asking about his generator and brandished a machete. He showed them his gun and they left."
LOL !! I like this guy.
What is great too is this guy did not expect the government to do everything for him. He was prepared for the worst and is surviving pretty well, sounds like.
The home owners are racist for even trying to defend themselves(Sarcastic remark alert)
Now this is a real American hero!
The sad thing is that he's probably going to lose this fight, anyway. I was reading that the mayor said they have to get everyone out to rebuild.
Sorry for the repost.
They make it hard on us when different AP media outlets use different titles for the same report.
And I did do a FR title search first.
The Mayor ain't long for the world.
They don't have to get people out of houses that were not flooded to rebuild.
Quite a bit of New Orleans was not flooded, although you wouldn't know that from the news reports.
Happens.
To me, more than once.
Weli I hope they don't go building a bunch of new projects.
Rule Number 1: Be Armed.
where are you? My house was in Gautier. The wall and roof blew off and flooded downstairs,,,, were you okay?
New tagline.
The National Rifle Associan makes it possible.
Please join the NRA and put the initials in your tagline. Thanks.
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