kevin wrote:
> Nancy1 wrote:
>
> <snip>
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> > I dunno, but he didn't look destitute when he was being helped into the
> > rescue boat - from what I read, some of his family (who DID evacuate)
> > tried to get him to leave, but he didn't want to. He wanted to stay
> > right there and "ride it out."
>
> Not sure what your definition of "destitute" is - I saw a picture -
> maybe the same one you saw. I wouldn't say he looked affluent. I don't
> know if he's rich, poor or in between - and neither do you. All blabber
> based on emotion and no facts. Maybe he's just older and a bit - umm,
> eccentric.

>From what I read Fats is 78 and lived in a 3 story house he'd owned for
a long time. He may have rationalized - as did many foolish people -
that a home that had survived other storms would withstand Katrina. As
my Dad got older, he got more, shall we say...determined. That may have
been the case with Fats and at any rate I'm glad they found him.

NT