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Hurricane evacuee rides bike New Orleans to Baton Rouge

Submitted by Brent Hugh on Wed, 08/31/2005 - 6:48am
The following story was posted to the Thunderhead Alliance email list. Godfrey is indeed an alternative transportation activist from New Orleans, but beyond that it is impossible to verify the details of the story at this time. Nevertheless, it's a good one:
Steve Godfrey, president of Higher Flyers handbill distribution service in New Orleans, rode his bike to Baton Rouge to escape Hurricane Katrina. Godfrey, who does not drive a car, is a bicycle advocate and community organizer and activist. His only available means of escaping the city before the hurricane was via his bicycle. He escaped sometime Sunday morning and arrived in Baton Rouge Sunday night. For those of us who know him, we are not only overjoyed by his safe evacuation, but are thoroughly insprired by his courage, his perserverance, and his can do attitude. We need more like him.

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