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I am getting a real education watching New Orleans die.

It's a sad situation. People who live in suburbia or small town America have no clue at the fear and the harm that inner city inhabitants have to endure. A small hardcore group of thugs usually terrorizes the rest of the 'hood.

"have no clue at the fear and the harm that inner city inhabitants have to endure"

Perhaps the best lesson of the end of New Orleans is that crime/degenerate behavor CAN NOT be tolerated by a civil society. Hopefully we will stop coddling our criminals and bring back chain gangs and public hangings.

This is why I refuse to live in populated areas. You've got a good point. Most people in populated areas have a false sense of security, but when supplies can't be shipped into cities, they turn into very uncomfortable places quickly.

A case in point are the bad winter storms we've had here in NC over the past several years. The roads were essentially unuseable for three days in my area during one storm, but after that I returned to work in Durham NC. People there thought that it must be REALLY bad "out where we lived". I thought this was VERY strange. I asked them what conditions were like in Durham and Raleigh and they told me that their houses and apartments were nothing more than fridged caves after two days of NO power.

I told them what I'll tell you. First off...we heat with WOOD. But after a day, the house got a little chilly on account of ceiling fans needing power to run. So I made a semi-perm connection from the generator to the house. Everything functioned except for the clothes dryer and the stove/oven. But we dried clothes over the woodstove in the living room, and cooked on the woodstove and a Coleman stove.

They just blinked and looked at me, but I still don't think they "got it".

As for people preying on one another in situations like these....that would be a VERY UNWISE thing to try out where I live. :-)