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...something was terribly wrong this summer when hybrid cars started popping up around me. What were golf carts doing on Western highways? I wondered whether they had been here for a while and I just hadn't noticed their low profiles from the vantage point of my 1-ton pickup, which is jacked up so high that the average Toyota Prius could drive underneath it without a scratch. Or had I ignored the cute scooters out of my own guilt...
...Mobile homes don't fare well, do they?" says Lykins, as they pass what appears to have been an abondoned trailer that has been wrecked and tossed on its side. Around the corner, Bond stops the big white Chevy 2500HD pickup again. A tree has crushed the roof of a good-sized bungalow, easily enough damage to have incapacitated anyone inside. "We got cars" in the driveway, he says. "We better do a check," says Lykins. The trio gets out to search, forcing their way in through the front door with a Haligan, a classic fireman's tool that resembles...
...been packing two days into one, shuttling by helicopter along the storm- and flood-ravaged coast. When he sees a problem, he tackles it. He immediately pressured the Federal Government to move gasoline into damaged areas, for example, arguing that if people have gas, they can drive to designated pickup points for food and water so that airlifts can then be focused on those in direst need. Under his direction, the military has delivered 13.6 million meals, handed out 24.2 million liters of water, launched 24 ships and deployed more search-and-rescue helicopters than are now flying in Afghanistan...
...trip down Canal was surreal; we floated over one of the city's main arteries, the murky water varying in depth from inched to more than 10 feet. At times we found ourselves paddling over the tops of pickup trucks. Looking down into the muck to avoid hitting cars and up to maneuver around low hanging power lines and tree branches, we came upon a flatboat filled with law enforcement officials, who were skeptical about our presence, but reluctantly allowed us to continue. Above us a steady stream of helicopters circled, patrolling the area from...
...living, leaving bodies behind. The potential for a disaster in the air was such that pilots told TIME reporter Adam Pitluk, who was embedded with them, to help scan the skies for stray news helicopters and sightseers in Cessnas among the flocks of military craft. "It was like a pickup game," said Lieut. Commander Bill Howey, a Navy helicopter pilot. "You got three or four different types of Army helicopters, same for the Navy. Then there's Customs, Coast Guard, Marines, and then there are the news helicopters." While rescuing a group of blind people trapped for five days...