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Medical patients evacuated through floods outside Superdome

By Laura Maggi
Capital bureau

Letrice Whitley sat on a folding chair outside the
Pete Maravich Assembly Center on Wednesday morning,
waiting to give birth alone, without her loved ones.

Whitley had been cooped up at the Superdome with her
family since Sunday, but when she began having
contractions, officials decided she needed to be moved
out. Wading through the floodwaters, Whitley piled
into a ambulance with three other people who needed to
be removed from the Dome because of medical
complications.

When she got to Baton Rouge, doctors determined that
Whitley was not in active labor, but will likely
induce labor soon because she is 38
weeks pregnant,
she said.

"I'm here alone. I don't want to have my baby like
this," said Whitley, who lives in Gretna. She has been
focusing on an ultrasound they took of her baby, who
doctors have said is doing well.