Jimmy Headrick couldn’t help but feel helpless. And he had a car. Two cars and a Suburban, to be exact. Enough leg room to comfortably get his wife, two children, six University of New Orleans golfers, a golden retriever and two cockatiels out of the bowl-shaped depression before disaster struck. Thousands were left behind with no means to escape. Headrick prayed he wouldn’t run out of gas. As the head of his family and the head coach of the UNO women’s golf team, Headrick knew he couldn’t afford to panic. For 17 hours on Aug. 28, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit land, the three-car caravan crawled East along interstates at single-digit speeds.
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