Yeah. It occurred to me. But let me tell you something. I currently live in an area almost identical in many respects to pre-hurricane New Orleans. There is rampant poverty here. In fact, I think there are even more people on public funding here than there were in New Orleans. But do you know what all the folks in the projects around here have? They have cars. They have cars with big shiny spinning hubcaps and carpeted dashboards. And when they drive those cars, they are usually talking on cellphones. And I thought to myself...if I heard there was a Cat 5 hurricane headed my way, I would look at my wife and two kids, and I would put them into my pimped up Cadillac, and I would drive out of town until I was out of the storms track. We might have to sleep in the car, but at least we'd be safe.
So until I can read some stats that say the more than 200,000 plus people "trapped" in New Orleans had no access to ways of getting out of town...I will temper my sympathy for them.
Yessss, yes indeed. Sounds a lot like my neighborhood. And you can fit nearly all of your tv's and gameboys in a big ole' Caddy, too, if they aren't already mounted to the dash!