Katrina survivor found as officials clash - Yahoo! News
Katrina survivor found as officials clash - Yahoo! News: "NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - Rescue workers combing hard-hit New Orleans neighborhoods found a survivor on Sunday who had camped out in his home since Hurricane Katrina, while officials clashed over when residents should return to the devastated city.
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The discovery of survivor Reyne Johnson nearly three weeks after Katrina ripped southern Louisiana and Mississippi relieved the search crews, who had been finding more and more corpses as floodwaters that forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee the historic city recede.
The Louisiana death toll rose to 646 on Sunday, bringing the total dead from Katrina to 883, including 218 in Mississippi and 19 combined in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
Johnson, 39, and his dog were discovered in his small house in an impoverished section of eastern New Orleans caked with mud by the flood.
'I'm doing a little better now,' said Johnson, who appeared disoriented after he answered rescuers' knock.
He was the first survivor found since a 76-year-old was rescued on Friday. Search and rescue teams had suspected someone was in Johnson's home and had been leaving food and water, but he had not responded to earlier attempts to make contact."
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The discovery of survivor Reyne Johnson nearly three weeks after Katrina ripped southern Louisiana and Mississippi relieved the search crews, who had been finding more and more corpses as floodwaters that forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee the historic city recede.
The Louisiana death toll rose to 646 on Sunday, bringing the total dead from Katrina to 883, including 218 in Mississippi and 19 combined in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee.
Johnson, 39, and his dog were discovered in his small house in an impoverished section of eastern New Orleans caked with mud by the flood.
'I'm doing a little better now,' said Johnson, who appeared disoriented after he answered rescuers' knock.
He was the first survivor found since a 76-year-old was rescued on Friday. Search and rescue teams had suspected someone was in Johnson's home and had been leaving food and water, but he had not responded to earlier attempts to make contact."
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