Our mayor in Biloxi,AJ Holloway,didn't decamp during the hurricane to some safe place with AC-he stayed to be available for the Emergency personnel. He stayed here in the heat and the same conditions as the rest of us,and when he toured the city after the wind died,he was in shock and then tears. But he got it together right quick and began working with our Governor and the emergency teams to maintain law and order(quickly assuring citizens that they could defend themselves and their property as is their Constitutional right),and getting relief aid in as fast as humanly possible. People in my own neighborhood were immediately out with chain saws clearing fallen trees from the road,and staying close to home otherwise,as requested.Mayor Holloway stayed right here in the heat and humidity like the rest of us,not even to make a point,but to do his job.
Before Katrina, I thought that's what all mayors did in this kind of situation. Nagin proved otherwise.
He's an embarrassment. Blanco and Landrieu, too.
The lack of such self-sufficiency is what sickened me the most about what happened at the Superdome and NO Convention Center. Granted, it was not pleasant in those facilities for the two to four days people were stuck there. But it could have been a WHOLE LOT better if people had organized and policed themselves, did everything possible to maintain some sanitary areas, helped the ill, elderly and mothers with young children, and otherwise acted like rational human beings rather than savages.