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“No one had any electricity. We kept having to detour because there would be trees down. No bathrooms were usable anywhere,” recalled Montse.
Once the Vittitows got to Lafayette and reunited with Justin and his roommates with the other evacuees at Wal-Mart, they found that the young men hadn’t suffered as badly as some, a fact that would be made even more clear in the days after the disaster.
“One of the people at the Wal-Mart had already lost a family member in the storm. Talking to people made what happened to the boys seem not so bad,” recalled Jim.
Clowes and Furtado had been planning to try and return to New Orleans once the effects of the storma had blown over, but by the time the Vittitows arrived to help, they realized that it was likely to be a long time before they could get back to check on the fate of their stuff.
“We all caravaned back together,” said Montse. They were all back in Chester Gap by Friday, September 2.
“It felt like we were in a war tom country. However, the good will and good wishes we received along the way were heartwarming, to say the least,” Montse posted on the popular local message board “Rappnet” when they returned.
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New Orleans?
.Justin and his roommates don’t know when they’ll be able to go back to New Orleans and find out what happened to their home.
“The other day I was trying to check on when the water would be gone and when they would be letting people back in and there was just a lot of politicking going on,” said a frustrated Justin Vittitow. “There’s been a couple of message boards that say the flooding in our area isn’t that bad. But there’s a lot of contradicting stuff.”
Monty Tayloe can be reached at mtayloe@timespapers.com
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