We make sure they drink water all day long. And they are allowed to do that in all of their classes. Water out here isn't going to help that much if they haven't been drinking it all day long.

The spring is where the church got its water from. One elderly lady told us one day that the young girls and their boyfriends would pretend that they wanted some water in order to come down to the spring to court.

It's going to be primarily a water issue, ... The big thing is going to be the (storm) surge.

Until the water is pumped out and until we can test the sludge and everything, we really don't know what the livability aspects are going to be, ... And that is probably going to be another two months just to get the water out of New Orleans.

It's scary when one day the city is there and the next day it's gone. To see the water actual kill people, I couldn't believe it. I never fathomed it could bury a city.

It was a mess. There was water everywhere. But he was so happy. It took him all day to wash three plates. But he made sure they were clean.