Chapter 14

Four hundred and twelve people came through our doors in ninety minutes. Nobody asked anyone for authorization. A man named Reggie Fontenot carried his ninety-year-old mother in on his back, and Dana had them both in dry blankets before he'd finished saying her name. Six of my crew built a Hart Frame across the east lot in three hours and forty minutes, in the rain, because two hundred people don't fit in a hallway. The water crested at 8 p.m. It stopped nine feet from the door. We lost...