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...When the water became too high, Midkiff found a skiff to ferry his wife and son to an empty school gym nearby. Armed with guns and an axe, they waited four days. “I said to myself, ‘they are going to come, they are going to come...
...give extraordinary, life-and-death responsibilities to 2nd class petty officers," says former Coast Guard Commandant James Loy, now retired and a senior counselor at the Cohen Group, a Washington consulting firm. Anna Steel, 24, a Coast Guard reservist from St. Louis, Mo., began navigating her 16-ft. skiff through New Orleans neighborhoods three days after the storm hit. She and her crewman brought 35 people to dry land at a highway on-ramp marked, appropriately enough, Elysian Fields. As the coxswain, Steel had extensive training in piloting the boat, so she made the decisions. "When...
...largely devoted to counting the dead, a task so vast and grim that even the city's coroner, Frank Minyard, doesn't hazard a guess at what lies beneath the receding waters. "We don't really know what's in the houses," Minyard says, sitting on an overturned fishing skiff in the shadow of the Superdome. He stares down an empty street as two ambulances creep through brackish waters toward Tulane University Hospital and its morgue. Near him, five men in white haz-mat uniforms wait on dry ground to collect bodies. Minyard extends his hand by way of introduction...
...Wales Conservatory (including Sun, above). They're made out of delicate flat or hollow pieces of hand-blown glass in a rainbow of colors, and are assembled on site. The display includes Chihuly's latest series, Fiori (Flowers), and two installations floating on the Palm House pond: Thames Skiff, a boat crowded with spikes, bulbs and shoots, and Walla Wallas, onion shapes floating in the water. Chihuly's sculpture just might inspire visitors to fill their window boxes in new ways. tel: (44-20) 8332 5655; www.kew.org.uk
...sense of wonder (including Sun, pictured). They're made out of delicate flat or hollow pieces of hand-blown glass in a rainbow of colors, and are assembled on site. The display includes Chihuly's latest series, Fiori (Flowers), and two installations floating on the Palm House pond: Thames Skiff, a boat crowded with spikes, bulbs and shoots, and Walla Wallas, onion shapes floating in the water. Chihuly's sculpture just might inspire visitors to fill their window boxes in new ways. tel: (44-20) 8332 5655; www.kew.org.uk...