[TheForceOfOne]

Opportunity to steal from another for profit is always on the minds of those who have no desire to obtain these items through honest hard work. A natural disaster like this is a dream come true for the criminals wandering the streets of N.O.

The honest people in left in the city who may be starving need to eat, that is another story.

[monday]

"A natural disaster like this is a dream come true for the criminals wandering the streets of N.O."

It's pretty obvious that many, perhaps most, of the people who didn't evacuate NO actually planned to use this opportunity to loot.