[steveegg]

That's true. A huge amount of supplies were needed, and it seems that the city itself (despite supposedly having done a "disaster management plan" not long before) underestimated the needs and really had no plan in the first place.

Sounds like the Chicago blizzard of 1977, only there aren't any Xerox machines working in NO to gin up an insta-plan.

[livius]

I guess they'll have the Xerox machines at the ready next time. No plan, no water, no nuttin - but it will look better.