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I work downtown, so we stayed downtown," he said. "It was the day after the hurricane, before the water started rising. That's when we had to leave. We went to Algiers [a suburb of New Orleans] and stayed in an apartment. I was standing on the front porch 24 hours a day with a shotgun. We stayed about three days, and there was nothing but gunshots and cops looting. They were taking big-screen TVs, flat-screen TVs -- anything electronic, the cops had it."

While tens of thousands of people went to the Superdome as authorities had instructed, Yost said he didn't trust it.

"We heard people were getting raped and killed," he told me. "I didn't witness that firsthand, but I wasn't going to attempt it."

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