If you think you understand the impact of Katrina upon people trapped in flood-ravaged homes, think again.

     Here are some of the conditions endured by New Orleans flood victims, reported by WorldNetDaily ("Tales of Horror From New Orleans," 9-9-2005):

• "Alligators threatened to climb onto the roof, along with rats, sewage and swimming deer. Adrift were dead pets, dead bodies and stench."

• When rescuers came they often shot pets despite the screams of protest from the pet's owners – who were then forced into helicopter rescue baskets.

• New Orleans residents James Thomas and Thelma Scott made it by boat to a local school on August 30th, after the levees broke, flooding the city.      They report they had to push corpses out of the way to navigate. Then they were taken by helicopter to even worse horrors.

  "Helicopters lifted everyone from the school to the infamous causeway underpass where a day and night of fighting, sniper shooting and threatening gangs prevented all sleep."

  "Everyone had to keep fending off cat-sized rats and other animals that came in the darkness from all directions. There was no electricity."

• We continue to receive reports that two weeks after the hurricane, many rural areas of Mississippi and Louisiana have yet to see a single FEMA agent or Red Cross representative.

  Entire towns with thousands of residents have vanished from the face of the earth, with not even a single survivor anywhere around.