We had 100 percent devastation down here, and I haven't seen an adjuster yet. We need some relief for these people.

People respond to tragedies like this in different ways. Everybody is doing their own thing. If they want to live in the squalor of what's left of their homes, that is their right.

The governor told us to leave.

It's kind of hard to sit up here and hold a grudge when it doesn't really matter at this point. The feelings he had, the feelings I had ... why bring that up. We're champs.

But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

It's the straw that broke the camel's back for some of them. If you're somebody who was already down to the last thread of survival, just trying to keep the bills paid, this will leave you flat out.