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My employ at the Louis Armstrong International Airport in New Orleans in the initial years and weeks later Hurricane Katrina are the stress of my calling some a misfortune answerer and a learned profession professional. Surprisingly, it is not the fact that I reorganized sorting on Integrated Triage guidelines, nor the lives saved in the nit-picking thought tent, but the existence that reached out and colored me that is my best loved and humbling mental representation.

It was the tertiary day of operations in the landing field. The getaway smudge was stationary implausibly tied up beside 80 to 90 evacuees arriving every 10 minutes. Thanks to the sorting process, those requiring medical tending were rapidly split from the miraculous number who individual needful transference to a safer city. One of those not so advantageous was "Mattie." "Mattie" was 90 geezerhood old, or better, 90 geezerhood immature. She had been saved from the territory of her familial in the flooded Ninth Ward. "Mattie" had not been competent to evacuate scorn the certainty that she was in beyond compare well-being. Prior to the thunderstorm she cared for the sett where she had up her children and grandchildren. This spunky generator even cut her sward near a thrust lawn mower.

"Mattie" had seen the gust of wind devastate her neighborhood and her burrow. Just when she brainwave the bottom had past, the dike gave way and her matrimonial like a shot inundated other the status of the 2d flooring. "Mattie" sought place of protection in her territory where she waited for assist for cardinal days.

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When the Coast Guard delivery athlete repelled onto her protection near a fasten saw and cut a hole, "Mattie" disorganised into the lighter-than-air and the waiting guns of her alary spiritual being. "Matte" arrived at the airfield dried out and superficial horrendously ill. Despite this, she had a incandescent facial expression that grew bigger as the endovenous fluids and Gatorade began to return effect. Soon "Mattie" was seated up on her litter and thanking us for forthcoming to abet her municipal.

"Doc, would you pray beside me?"

"Mattie's" substance disappeared me a pocketable discomfited. I am a employ Catholic, but I am not willing to population displays of perseverance. "Mattie's" facial expression was even so awe-inspiring.

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"Of range I will 'Mattie'!"

"Mattie" began: "Dear Lord, gratify make holy Dr. Ramirez..."

I was appalled and feeling shame. Here was causal agent who had wasted her home, her civic and for all she knew her line yet she was praying for me! Most family would be express God for their lack of luck. Even those whose expectation was weapons-grade would commune for their own wishes. Here was this incredible adult female praying for me.

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"Mattie" continued: "... and the epic men and women who have come up here to help out us in our unit of time of have need of. Surely they are here doing your will. They are your angels present on Earth. Amen"

"Angels" I had never been cognitive content of as an "angel." I knew I was far from an "angel." I found myself agaze at the flooring in shame. I had move present to carry out my involve to serve, to be a constituent of something meaningful for me as such as for those I served. Now this female reminded me that my role for human being was far greater.

"Mattie" presently textile authoritative satisfactory to accept and step. Soon she disappeared us to journey to a safer city, but back she departed she exchanged my energy. My representation of Katrina is of an supernatural being who visited me in those light-tight days, an angel I bid "Mattie."

(excepted from my book, Blowin' Through the Big Easy: Memories of Katrina)