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Byron Lain 31, went out in a boat with friend Michael Knight and estimates he rescued 200 people from their inundated homes.
"We had this man stuck in an attic, we had to go through his window and get him," Lain said, relating how the pair would park their boat behind a building during the worst gusts of wind and duck out during periods of relative calm.
"I am going to be blessed for everything Gift Basket Idea I do," he said when asked why he had risked his life to save others.
One woman, 58-year-old Delores O'Con, asked as she limped out of the disaster zone "you ain't got a cellphone do you? I Gift Basket Idea have lost everything."
Another Ninth District resident, Cherrenonda Lee, wept she relived the nightmarish moments when storm tides washed away her husband.
"All I remember, he was latched onto a tree branch," Lee, 44, said, bursting into tears as she recalled the heart-wrenching moment when husband Philip Major was borne on an angry storm surge before Gift Basket Idea he could save himself.
"He is a swimmer, but you could bump your head on anything," she said. "Where can I go to recognise a body?"
Lee's daughter, Joyce, 24, who lived with the family
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