It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars. -Fred Powell

 

It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.


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This quote is just one of 6 total Fred Powell quotes in our collection. Fred Powell is known for saying 'It hit at around 1 a.m., ... The mayor had been on TV telling everyone to get to higher ground, but I knew as much about getting around in New Orleans as I know about Mars.' as well as some of the following quotes.

Everyone fell apart, ... Hundreds of people. Women were crying, people yelling, people visibly panicking.

Fred Powell

I'll never know how they got us out. They knew every street that wasn't flooded, and drove around 'til we finally came up on the main roads that were open. We still had to get out and move trees and things in our way.

Fred Powell

It was awful, ... We thought of all the people we'd met and faces we'd seen, and wondered if they survived. The morning after we got out, everyone was being shoved into the Superdome.

Fred Powell

Both the hotel workers and their families, and the tourists, were fed and given water in food lines, ... Food and water were growing scarce. On the 30th, it was announced that 10 buses were on their way.

Fred Powell