Homeless and Sunburned in New Orleans

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Two days no trucks, running out of food and water and everyone else who made it to high ground stripped out the store. We got desperate yesterday morning as the sun rose and we were running out of water. The previous night several of us had convinced one of the locals to hotwire the church sedan which we thought was full of gas so we could escape to Baton Rouge. About turns out he wanted $400 to drive us and an additional $175.00 forthe hot wiring. We agreed, money not being an object. But then he overreached himself and couldn't hot wire and the van on had gas vapors.At about 3:00am my wife went ballastic.She commandeered a tractor and asked the driver to bring us to our French quarter offices because they were still dry and the water pressure worked. We paid him $1,000 to drive us there. Turns out it was a stolen truck. We couldn't exit any ramps from the interstate water too high, with driver constranly sipping from a pint bottle (scenes of people in the dead of night reaching out for the truck as we drove along were truely frightening.)