Mobile, Alabama was hit by Katrina's stronger East side, yet Mobile's pre-hurricane planning, disaster plan, relief plan, and state/federal cooperation went by the book. Result: no news from Mobile, Alabama (no lootings, no riots, no rotting corpses, you know...what makes news for liberals).
New Orleans, hit by the weaker West side of Katrina, discovered that it had no responsible state or local leadership.
Quite a contrast. Same storm.