Hey, the truck is looking pretty graffitied.

I wish they would do some beautiful work on it.

It's pretty, pretty low quality.

Is it running, is the truck running, is it still?

It's spraying diesel fuel everywhere so it's finished.

Too much water, all right, too much water.

Because you drove it through, four foot of the water, five foot of water.

Me and a garbage truck were the first ones out, You know before I ever got started with the police, I realized from a woman walking by, I realized, well a trucker came by and made me realize this thing would run in four feet of water because it was diesel.

I didn't even realize it.

Oh yeah and then a woman was walking by and I picked her up to help her.

She had walked all the way back to the Ninth Ward to get her husband's medicine.

I was picking her up on the return trip.

Oh my.

And brought it to the French Quarter and then I realized well, this is something I can be doing.

First three days, I was running by myself and then they put me in convoy with the National Guard and my truck would, they were using it a lot more for the elderly, bringing, because we had a liftgate.

We burned that, slammed out pretty quick.

Oh luckily halfway down, when it burned out, it was halfway down so we could get them half and then all the way up.

And then you were running convoys to the airport with, and all.

But that was at the end.

First we were going to the Superdome or to the convention center.

The convention center was a lot easier to get to.

Superdome was four feet of water, middle of the night, no.

Luckily I knew where the streets were because you couldn't see anything.

It was so surreal being down there so I was trying to bring everybody to convention center but they actually thought they were going to open the convention center and have the convention so they, one night, the director of the convention center said, oh you can't bring those people here.

We have a convention in the week, yes sure.

I had to go get the police chief and bring him back in so I could drop the people off.

Oh my goodness.

So that yeah that was an issue.

And then they claim that they didn't even know there were people at the convention center.

No, they knew.

They told, the police told me to bring them there.

I mean that was part of the, 'cause we were going out on short runs and then we came back.

I think it was like the yeah the Tuesday, yeah Tuesday afternoon and the Cajun Navy came out of Houma.

That was a beautiful sight.

They had every kind of boat.

It just stretched down around Harrah's, down Canal Street and then so my job was when they would go out into the neighborhood and pick people up on their boats, I was supposed to wait and bring them to the convention center and they did it just like a regular boat launch.

They parked everybody on angles on the interstate.

You got the boat, it looked just like a boat launch.

Oh my it was great and also they couldn't take the hot dog out of them because they would launch the boat full speed out of there.

I show you the front of the boat Wow take off down Elysian Fields and you say what, crazy.

I'll go like ahh, stop signs, cars buried under there.

And where was the truck relative to, your truck relative to those boats moving through all that water.

They really used Louisa, when Louisa goes down, that was the boat launch 'cause it was on, the interstate was underwater so you created it so I just went to Louisa.

Yeah.

And I never saw any violence at all in what I was doing.

Right, none.

But didn't you tell me you would come home at night.

It'd be dark and you'd be like worried about.

Yeah, that scared the hell out of me getting out of and the end of the day was always pitch black and I had to unload my truck every night because I was trying to keep ice chests going and was we had ice most of the time yeah and the National Guard was who was really sneaking up on me.

All of a sudden, they come out of nowhere.

They just be, why are you here, why are you outside after nine o'clock.

Let me see your license.

Oh yeah, yeah.

And you remember the time I was talking they get.

Didn't they give you some kind of special credentials that said that you know working with.

No they didn't give me anything ever 'cause no copy machines.

No there was nothing, I mean nothing, no there was no radios, there was no.

I photographed you in the cab you know for that that piece I did about you for Storm Cycle: Local Hero and you were, that was that point, you were holding up this can of asparagus.

You said you've been eating asparagus for three days.

That was the perfect meal was one can asparagus, one can of corn, and a can of tuna.

Get all that together and you're straight.