by Kevin Horan for USN&WR

Henry Necaise, Jr., 11, with his father, from Ocean Springs, Miss. The father and his family took refuge in the school where he is a maintenance man: "I looked at my wife and said, 'I love you, we've had a real good time and all, but I've got to get the kids. You're on your own.' She said, 'I'll stay right with you.' ... I tied the two kids to me and picked up the dogs in a crate in front of me. The water was over my waist then. ... We could hear people in the houses around us. They were yelling for help, and we could hear banging, banging. People were breaking through their roofs so they could get up on top. ...A lot of people were lost."

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