Mr. PATRICK WILLIAMS (Assistant Director, Marching Band): It's not Endymion if they don't do the mid-city route, you know.

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He is one of carnival's most prolific float builders, creating the rides of some major parades like Orpheus, Endymion and Bacchus.

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But the band's assistant director, Patrick Williams knows that this parade, called Endymion, used to roll through mid-city, a neighborhood that was flooded.

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Kelly, 60, a Saints season ticket holder and president of the Mardi Gras Krewe Endymion, has never seen anything like the Saints euphoria in New Orleans.

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