The bottom line is that I am happy, I got out, my family got out and my friends got out.
NOTE TO ALL: Please go loot my house right now so that I do not have to clean it up when I go back. I also have a dozen relatives with me here in Texas that have given permission for their homes to be looted. The houses are gone the city is gone. We really don't care about our TV's at this point.
A few years back when the levy broke in Fargo, that's just what some relatives of mine did. They just let the government buldoze the place and moved to higher land. Once a house gets soaked like that, it's ruined and there is NOTHING you can do to salvage it. There really is nothing to go back to a salvage.
You bring up an excellent point. It had occurred to me that the looters are taking items that will be lost to flood waters if left where they are. I don't know if I'd trust the food items, in that toxic brew of flood waters, unless well sealed. It is the least problem to be sure, except where folks are shooting at officers. I did wonder about that, it almost seems a shame that so many items, salvagable at this point, will be wasted. It doesn't help though that some of the looters are talking 'oppression' and such, but I suppose they are not their usual selves, considering the situation. I'm not excusing bad behavior, but clearly they are stressed beyond what most people who aren't there can imagine. Good luck to you and yours.