Canadians Beat U.S. Army to New Orleans Suburb (by five days)

[G_j]

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0908-02.htm

Published on Thursday, September 8, 2005 by Reuters

Canadians Beat U.S. Army to New Orleans Suburb

A Canadian search-and-rescue team reached a flooded New Orleans suburb to help save trapped residents five days before the U.S. military, a Louisiana state senator said on Wednesday.

The Canadians beat both the Army and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the U.S. disaster response department, to St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans, where flood waters are still 8 feet deep in places, Sen. Walter Boasso said.

"Fabulous, fabulous guys," Boasso said. "They started rolling with us and got in boats to save people."

"We've got Canadian flags flying everywhere."
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[Spazito]

1. Here is a link to the teams log

http://www.city.vancouver.bc.ca/usar/index.htm

[applegrove]

2. Hell - those people are Mountain Men. They are not afraid of Grizzlies.

You see them all over the Rockies when they are 21 or so. They pass you buy going back-country skiing at forty miles and hour with a shovel on their backs to dig a hole in the snow to sleep in.