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Floodlines

Exodus

Floodlines

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Politics, News, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 March 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Part V: A hero arrives. But not the one everyone expected. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:11.0

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0:13.0

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0:17.0

not investment advice. Crypto trading involves risk of loss.

0:31.0

Lot of you on the phones trying to help me out here, to help the people out there.

0:35.0

Say where your lighthouse gang in this moment of darkness.

0:42.0

Radio hosts Garland Robinette was on the air more or less constantly after Katrina,

0:47.0

broadcasting from a studio the size of a broom closet in Baton Rouge.

0:51.0

Being on the air so much, Mitt Garland got more than his fair share of call-ins,

0:55.0

calls from victims of the flood, from evacuees looking for family members.

1:00.0

Even the occasional foreigner helping for updates.

1:03.0

It was all pretty bizarre for an evening talk show.

1:06.0

And then on Thursday, a few days after the storm, things got even more bizarre.

1:16.0

Garland got a call from the mayor, Ray Nagan.

1:23.0

What did you say to the president of the United States and what did he say to you?

1:28.0

I basically told him we had an incredible crisis here,

1:32.0

and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do it justice.

1:36.0

The call was all over the place.

1:38.0

Sometimes, Nagan seemed furious.

1:41.0

They don't have a clue what's going on down here.

1:43.0

They flew down here one time, two days after the dog on the event was over,

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