Many of the victims deserve some blame, staying behind because you have a dog is stupid, take it with you and skip the shelters. Staying behind because you survived Camille is stupid, this wasn't Camille. Staying behind just to see it, beyond stupid. Not that the Pol's get a pass, but their incompetence was predictable, they're libs.
The point is there is a time and a place to chew out the people who stayed behind. I am sure right now they more than you or anybody else is kicking themselves in the a** for staying behind. They do not need some self righteous people to preach to them from there comfy computer chair, but they sure could use a helping hand.
I certainly wouldn't have stayed. But if I was an old-timer that had survived Camille and my home was located near the house of Jefferson Davis in Biloxi and that house had survived since Civil War times, I can understand why some might have stayed.
Of course, that fabulous home/museum is now a pile of rubble somewhere inland, and it's easy to see mistakes in hindsight.
I have no idea what the death toll in Mississippi is. If you forced me to guess, I'd say well more than 1,000.
This was no Camille.