. >> reporter: just down the street from here about a mile is where we met 77-year-old earl trish. >> holding this, holding that for more than three hours. keeping the wind and rain down somewhat. the wind would blow so hard, it would blow me back. >> reporter: his home is high and dry. his wife evacuated, but he refused to. he had a heart attack five months ago, and when we met him, he had just run out of his heart medication. so his neighbor lisa went and got it for him. >> got your prescriptions. >> that's the main thing i'm after. >> reporter: when we drove through barataria, we saw so many people who had their personal belongings soaked. this man want us to see his horse that had run away from a hurricane and was now a mile down the road standing at someone's front door because it was dry there. around here, pets are treated as well as people, which brings us back to robert gonzalo and thor. >> hi, buddy! >> reporter: he says thor is the only reason he is still son alr. as for whether he is going to stick around for another storm the size of ida -- >> it will never happen again.