EL PASO, Texas -- These are happy days for Debbie Able. Just 4 1/2 years ago she was in a very different place both physically and emotionally.

"The water was just coming from everywhere. And I picked up my puppy and I ran inside," said Able.

It was the day after Hurricane Katrina, and the levee near her New Orleans home failed.

"By about 4 o'clock, the water was to my thigh, by about 9 o'clock it was to my waist, by about 10 o'clock it was in my house," Able told KFOX.

She spent a week in her home before finally being rescued.

"We got on the plane and we flew to Fort Bliss. And I said, 'I told you we were going to Iraq.' They said, 'No, El Paso.' And I've been here ever since, I love it," she said.

Able brought with her one thing to El Paso, an undying love for the New Orleans Saints.

The Super Bowl was more than just a football game for Able and for her hometown.

"After Katrina, they actually needed something good to happen, 'cause New Orleans was talked about so bad," she said.

And something very good did happened. On Sunday night her Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts and won the Super Bowl.

Able watched the game in El Paso, but she surely celebrated like she was a thousand miles to the east on Bourbon Street.

"They just going to party. That's what they going to do, just party," she said.