Before you go comparing a common event like a big blizzard to Hurricane Katrina, you should go down to the Gulf Coast yourself and see the difference. It's not the same thing. Very few people, if any, will be left homeless by this blizzard.
Not excusing the excessive amounts of whining that came from NOLA, just saying that this is not a valid comparison.
I've experienced Typhoons (Karen on Guam), Hurricanes (in North Carolina), Tornadoes (in Texas), Earthquakes (in California) and blizzards (both in Montana and in North Dakota).
None are pleasant and all have the same degree of stress involved with them.
Maybe not, but I can remember one particular blizzard 3 years ago, about this time of year, where 99% of the state of Montana was shut down for nearly 2 months, the MHP didn't even allow "emergency travel only", so if you had a medical condition, you were on your own. You couldn't get from point A to point B even in a 4WD vehicle, and snowplows in most areas gave up as they couldn't keep up with the intensity of snowfall, and many snowplow drivers had been working 18 hour shifts to begin with. It happend to hit right around Christmas time, and I was in Wisconsin, and wasn't sure I'd make it home.