Summary
ABBEVILLE, La. - In the first 48 hours after Hurricane Rita roared through the sodden edges of the Gulf Coast, Tracy Savage lived off the handouts of a stranger.
Just before the storm delivered a 10-foot surge, Savage packed up his wife, two children and little else and drove his barely running motor home inland from his home in Mouton Cove, a marshy speck in Vermilion Parish now washed away by the storm.See the full content of this document
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Storms Show Value of Volunteers
"Just about everything I own is floating somewhere" said Savage, now parked at the Abbeville First Baptist Church, which sits on a high and dry patch downtown, while he waited for the Feder...
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