NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- It's dark. It's shirt-soaking hot. And the only word to describe the heavy odor is "indescribable." But they wouldn't leave.
Even the sight of human corpses tied to banisters to stop their drifting have failed to drive off straggling New Orleanians.
But police are coming, and they're armed with the mayor's order to forcibly remove anyone who refuses to leave the flooded cesspool of a city.
Police Chief Eddie Compass said officers will use "the minimal amount of force" in evacuations.
Officials doubt it will come to that. Finally, they said, most holdouts are ready to give in.
"Some are finally saying, 'I've had enough,'" Michael Keegan of Immigration and Customs Enforcement told The Associated Press. "They're getting dehydrated. They are running out of food. There are human remains in different houses. The smells mess with your psyche." [Read more - CNN]
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