After being rescued with her dog, getting a ride to safety from kind strangers
Victoria Webb by Jennifer Abraham, 2007; 4700.1957
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Victoria Webb. Photo by David Breidenbach.
TEMPESTS: Storms in the Archives
Victoria Webb: So he showed us where to go to get in the boat. So I asked . . . I asked him what I had to do with my dog [Max]. He said, "Don't worry about it," he said, "You're going to be able to take your dog." Oh my God, I got as light as a feather, you know. Then the next thing, "How's Max going to put up? How's he going to react?" But Max loves the water, so I think that's one thing that helped, you see? So I said, "Where Max going to be?" He put me seated. He said, "You sit right here," he said, "and Max going to sit right there, right next to your feet." I said, "Well God, God, please help me, please help me," that he wouldn't start pulling and barking and all of that. I got seated, Max came in like a human being. He sit by my feet. He didn't try to bark. He didn't try to move. And that's when we went to Tulane. They put us down at Tulane in this small parking garage. After we knew that the buses couldn't take us to New Roads, just out of the blue sky the guardian angel, the lady called me by name and she said, "Vicky, come over," where she was, you know? And when I went there, she said, "I overheard that no bus would be going to New Roads." So she said, "My mother said she would take you and your sister to New Roads." Oh my God. [sighs] I got as light . . . I was already light! I got lighter than a feather, you know. I was so happy. I didn't believe it was real. I just couldn't believe it was real. Just out of the deep blue. They didn't know us, you know. And I said, "Oh yes!" I said how much we would love that and appreciate it.