Camp LeJeuene is close to me...
“Hey, it rained here in Eastern NC and we got 40-50 mph winds, and my RV got wet. Where can I get my free gas?”
Very funny, but this is a disaster that dwarfs Katrina (in terms of the number and DENSITY of the people involved). I don’t think they should give the gas away (either sell at market price or extend credit if necessary so people don’t die without it), but this area has never seen something on this scale. Resolution is months away, since the mass transit system is still flooded and scattered power outages will take weeks to address. The 9/11 recovery to get things “back to normal” took weeks, and that was an area that was probably less than a square mile; this spans several states.