The Carters, both 47, arrived in New Orleans on Aug. 24 for an emergency medical service conference. They had planned to leave Sunday, but roads were clogged by people evacuating the city and some cab drivers were demanding $1,000 for a trip to the airport, they said.Wow... that looks like fun. NOT!!!
When the storm hit, they found shelter in a hotel conference room. Now, because of a curfew, they must be at their hotel by 6 p.m. or face arrest. They are required to be in their dark, stuffy room by 9 p.m.
"It's really hot. It's just sticky," Annette Carter said.
The hotel, the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, is housing about 3,000 people. It lacks running water, so hotel workers were providing bottled water and using propane stoves to heat chicken and mashed potatoes from a canceled banquet.
According to Google Maps, the Carters were 15.3 miles from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport.
That comes out to $65.36 a mile, not including tip.
Looks like a heck of a deal today, eh? Now you have to play Survivor: New Orleans but without the million dollar prize, without Jeff Probst, and without all those cranky young hotties.
Calling the Tax Update Blog - here's a question for ya: Do you think, considering that cab drivers were allegedly charging $1000 to drive 15 miles to the airport prior to the arrival of what was then-thought to be a Category 5 hurricane, that the IRS would allow that sort of business deduction?
Too bad they couldn't have hitched a ride with the South Dakota family who hired a limo to drive them to Chicago for $3700.
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