Holdouts vow party will go on
9th Sep 2005, 12:35 GMT
Wearing a sporty straw hat to shade her complexion from the Southern sun, Sandy Rando had a message Thursday from the French Quarter: "Let the good times roll back." On the Quarter's narrow streets of bars, restaurants and antiques shops — most of them closed — defiant survivors of Hurricane Katrina resisted an evacuation order and reasserted their rights as colorful characters in a city famed for excess. The center of the sleazy Big Easy that America knows from Mardi Gras, Super Bowls and countless conventions was high and dry, or at least not flooded.
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