nbc6.net - News - Hurricane Survivors Evacuated To Miami Describe Katrina

nbc6.net - News - Hurricane Survivors Evacuated To Miami Describe Katrina: "'It was horrible. Trying to beat down the panic was the worst of it,' said 72-year-old William Morgan. 'I'm sitting there in my wheelchair and suddenly water starts coming through the doors, through the windows. Clinging to the side of my roof and a tree -- I would not wish that on my worst enemy.'

'I dragged four bodies, dead bodies, out of the convention center,' 50-year-old Albert Allen said.

Allen said he hopes Miami will be the start of a new life for him. He and Morgan were among several dozen people airlifted to Opa-locka Airport.

The medical evacuation was part of a massive U.S. airlift that some officials believe is the largest of its kind.

'If you look at when was the last time the U.S. military assisted in the evacuation of a metropolitan city the size of New Orleans, I would have to say this ranks at the very top. I can think of no other evacuation effort the size of the ongoing effort in New Orleans within the last 100 years in the United States,' said Lt. Col. Frank Smolinsky, spokesman for the Secretary of the Air Force in Washington."