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Exhausted mom Karolyn Bell said she cradled her newborn baby son against gales and blinding rain storms to tiptoe over a plank between two homes, as she outpaced rising floods after Hurricane Katrina struck on Monday.
"The wind was blowing and I was scared, I don't want to go through that again," Bell said as she related how she held her five-day old baby to her chest, with stiches fresh in her abdomen from a Puppy Gift Basket C-section delivery Thursday.
"My son is just five days old ... I just got out of the hospital Sunday, I had surgery too, I had a C-section," said Bell, as her seven-year-old daughter Caralean plodded along beside her.
"I have been making home-made pampers for my baby. ... He has the same t-shirt and pants. I am worried about my children, I have been trying to keep them dry."
Another Ninth District resident joined bands Puppy Gift Basket of men who left their homes as the storm was at its most potent, to rescue people from encroaching floods.
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 Puppy Gift Basket everything I do," he said when asked why he had risked
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