They'll be writing about this failure for years to come. Why weren't people evacuated sooner? Why weren't supplies brought in ahead of time, just in case? Why weren't the levies reinforced better? Why weren't worst case scenario communication plans in place? ETC! And, if we did have this figured out, why the hell didn't it happen?

Other places are reporting order and calm with pretty bad conditions. Of course, New Orleans is the worst of it and we knew it would be. And anyone who wonders why we have police and that they are causing more problems than they are fixing can save it. I also don't know how disaster conditions give people the excuse to pillage and rape and whatnot. It is mind boggling, to say the least.

Most of the people who didn't evacuate New Orleans were in a bad situation to begin with and this has just made it exponentially worse. In a way, it isn't surprising that after five days, anarchy rules. What is surprising is that it has been five days and every hour that passes makes restoring ANYTHING increase by a huge amount. This will not be something we can just clean up with some bulldozers and shovels.

Ferrick