From the front porch of his Venetian Isles home, turned into an island by Hurricane Isaac'srelentless floodwaters, Robby Knecht shouted a few ideas to Mayor Mitch Landrieu, who'd pulled up outside in the bed of a GMC pickup truck. "We were expecting three feet, that's normal. We got 6 ½ feet," he shouted. His voice was his only method of communication since his power flickered off days ago, his cell phone battery died and his landline went out.
View full sizeRobby Knecht, center, president of the Venetian Isles Civic and Improvement Association, is stranded with his family at his home outside the city's levee system on Thursday.
Knecht - and many of his neighbors in the small slivers of New Orleans outside the federal flood protection system - said Isaac wreaked considerably more havoc on their community than Gustav four years ago.
The water is higher, up to the tops of their mailboxes. Their only road in and out had turned into a river, 3 feet deep in places, leaving those who decided to stay stranded in their homes without power or reinforcements for what could stretch on for days longer.
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