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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (136744)	9/3/2005 1:22:27 PM
From: paret	Respond to of 794091

Immediately after Katrina and the flooding, the NO parish sheriff was sending out pleas across the state for all available flat-bottomed boats to come to NO. This is the Sportman's Paradise State where there's a flat-bottomed bass fishing boat in every yard! Young men gathered together with their bass fishing boats. Each boat had 2 young men (all of them volunteers with jobs & families) with survival & first aid equipment. They all met in LAFAYETTE and then departed in a convoy. With gas prices already soaring and all out of their own pockets, 200 bass fishing boats (we were told) traveled in a convoy to New Orleans to go rescue lives. The military authorities denied them entrance into New Orleans and made them ALL turn around and leave immediately!