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Another "Katrina" story.(THE GOODNESS OF AMERICA)(Brief Article)
A group of nine friends in South Florida could not sit on the sidelines when Katrina plowed into New Orleans. They rushed to the stricken city to offer what assistance they could--and brought their boats with them.
"Last year when all those hurricanes hit our area, our neighbors got together and helped us," Floridian Nick Cronin told a reporter from the Christian Science Monitor. "It just seemed right to do the same." Nick and his friends own airboats, those airplane propeller-driven craft popularly used for transportation in Florida's Everglades. They knew their boats would be perfect for getting around the flooded ...
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