Some New Orleans residents stage raid to check out damaged homes - Yahoo! News
Some New Orleans residents stage raid to check out damaged homes - Yahoo! News: "NEW ORLEANS - They gathered at 3 a.m. Friday in their yardwork worst and high rubber rain boots, ready to do battle with the city's checkpoints and roadblocks.
About 30 residents of New Orleans East, tired of being barred from their homes in one of the areas worst hit by Hurricane Katrina, decided not to wait for Mayor Ray Nagin to call their number.
Even as Nagin opened the city to eight new ZIP codes Friday, the New Orleans East renegades drove in a caravan from Baton Rouge to a closed area that was flattened by nature's A-bomb and then flooded by a levee breach. Ultimately, they got through with the help of City Council member Cynthia Willard-Lewis and Police Capt. Bob Bardy, who met them in a parking lot off Interstate 10 and simply told them to be out by 3 p.m.
Residents of the working and upper middle-class neighborhoods, where streets before the hurricane were shaded by tall trees and lined with neat brick bungalows, said they were tired of unfair treatment.
'If you keep some out, you have to keep all out,' said Mack Slan, one of the group's organizers. 'All we have asked for is to go home and assess the property and leave, so we can make provisions for the next four to five months and get on with our lives.'"
About 30 residents of New Orleans East, tired of being barred from their homes in one of the areas worst hit by Hurricane Katrina, decided not to wait for Mayor Ray Nagin to call their number.
Even as Nagin opened the city to eight new ZIP codes Friday, the New Orleans East renegades drove in a caravan from Baton Rouge to a closed area that was flattened by nature's A-bomb and then flooded by a levee breach. Ultimately, they got through with the help of City Council member Cynthia Willard-Lewis and Police Capt. Bob Bardy, who met them in a parking lot off Interstate 10 and simply told them to be out by 3 p.m.
Residents of the working and upper middle-class neighborhoods, where streets before the hurricane were shaded by tall trees and lined with neat brick bungalows, said they were tired of unfair treatment.
'If you keep some out, you have to keep all out,' said Mack Slan, one of the group's organizers. 'All we have asked for is to go home and assess the property and leave, so we can make provisions for the next four to five months and get on with our lives.'"
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