[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Given that 9/11 was an attack on one section of the city I was really impressed with the response and outpouring of help from the native New Yorker. However should a Big Hurricane impact New York the effects will be more wide spread and the devastation will make 9/11 look like a church outing by comparison. If the bad elements of New York behave themselves then I will be greatly surprised. More to the point there is a criminal element in every big city that will take advantage of such disasters... its a fact of life. It may not happen and I pray that it doesn't but the odds and the human condition are against it. This is all speculation and I am sure that over 99.9% of the people who inhabit the Big Apple are ordinary law abiding citizens who will help each other through times of adversity. It is the .1 % that will turn a disaster like this into a war-zone.

[wtc911]

Don't count on it. You may live up here but you don't know us yet.

[cyborg]

You would be pleasantly surprised my southron friend. Folks were worried about looting during the blackout recently and nothing happened. At least not on Long Island and despite my loud,vocal disagreements with the local black muslims, made sure I was okay by myself in the health food store. Besides most law abiding males I live around own guns.

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Another BIG difference between NYC and NO is the quality of the police force.

Even before Katrina, the New Orleans Police Department was world-famous for corruption and incompetence.

The NYPD is probably the finest municipal police force in the world. When 911 hit, they ran towards the disaster, not away from it.

If there's looting after a hurricane in NYC, it won't be tolerated for very long.