Some more non NOLA links. See great story below.
((Plus It is a Pro BUSH Story that even left may play.... /sarcasm off))
September 2, 2005
'Death grip' on bush saves 14 officers
By Cain Burdeau
The Associated Press
For five hours, 14 members of Waveland's police department held on desperately to a spindly bush as they watched the town they swore to protect being torn apart by Hurricane Katrina.
Debris shot past them; tin roofs fired up into the air; a shrimp boat swept past in churning sea waters as they clung to the 8-foot-tall bush. Blasted by a storm surge some say was 30 feet high Monday morning, this town got some of the worst of Katrina.
Three days later, the anemic-looking, red-tipped bush in front of the police department has become a shrine to Waveland's men and women in blue. There's now a hand-carved wooden cross placed in the bush to highlight its role in a remarkable story of survival — a sign of hope as police go about the grim duty of recovering bodies and trying to help shocked survivors in the town of 7,000 about 35 miles east of New Orleans.
"You can see where there's no bark," said Lisa Parker, the chief's secretary. "That's where we were holding onto it."
Added patrolman Todd Blake: "The death grip hold."
MORE at
http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050902/NEWS0110/509020362/1260
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I need to go into my history and pull my Clarion Ledger stuff. I just read the FR Copyright. I will fix and just put in links and title.
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