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Jim Osborne has an airboat, and he felt compelled to use it to help hurricane survivors in New Orleans.
By RACHEL HARRIS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
A Port St. Lucie letter carrier shocked his bosses Tuesday when he turned up on National Public Radio � and said he was more than 750 miles away.
Jim Osborne, 47, was scheduled to report to the Orange Avenue post office in Fort Pierce but ended up on his airboat in the flooded streets of New Orleans, searching for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
His bosses didn't find out until their drive to work Tuesday morning, when they heard Osborne on NPR's Morning Edition, said Joseph Breckenridge, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman.
"I'm a letter carrier with the postal service, and I will be AWOL," Osborne said in the radio report, which detailed rescue efforts near the French Quarter.....
Here's the rest: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/local_news/epaper/2005/09/07/m1b_slpost_0907.html
By RACHEL HARRIS
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, September 07, 2005
A Port St. Lucie letter carrier shocked his bosses Tuesday when he turned up on National Public Radio � and said he was more than 750 miles away.
Jim Osborne, 47, was scheduled to report to the Orange Avenue post office in Fort Pierce but ended up on his airboat in the flooded streets of New Orleans, searching for survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
His bosses didn't find out until their drive to work Tuesday morning, when they heard Osborne on NPR's Morning Edition, said Joseph Breckenridge, a U.S. Postal Service spokesman.
"I'm a letter carrier with the postal service, and I will be AWOL," Osborne said in the radio report, which detailed rescue efforts near the French Quarter.....
Here's the rest: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/storm/content/local_news/epaper/2005/09/07/m1b_slpost_0907.html
