If you were black, and lived in NO, without a car, would you want to go to the superdome, or cross the bridge and be on high ground, and walk right into Bull Connor's office, and say high, got a place to stay? How bout letting me stay in one of them school buses? Or find a church or something. Or better yet, go to a hospital or medical facility. In any event, what they did is illegal. They should be sued, and then sued some more. Their lives should be made a living hell.
There were hundreds of square miles left untouched in New Orleans. Hundreds of churches, buildings, sky scrappers, warehouses, the under-roof square footage left untouch in New Orleans proper was at least a 1000 times more than the small city mentioned. They had had refuged and their own city failed to provide it.