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New Orleans taxi driver kept driving through Katrina’s flood hours
Betty Magee remained behind in New Orleans on August 28 2005 choosing to work as a taxi driver as mandatory evacuation loomed. She ferried passengers to the airport and back into the storm hoping to earn enough to leave with $300 cash. After evacuating 550 miles to Arlington Texas she returned to a FEMA trailer and a near ghost town. She rebuilds slowly relying on FEMA not flood insurance and remains undeterred praising resilience and faith.
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