Maybe we should understand and accept that for catastrophes such as Katrina, we can expect some bottled water and some MREs, but that we are on our own for medium- and long-term housing, etc. And maybe we should also understand and accept that repair of major infrastructural damage (unless critical to national security) is going to take so long that life as we knew it in that area is over.
It seems less cruel to tell victims of a disaster like Katrina that whatever life they had before is gone.
Mumps, the big problem we're seeing in New Orleans is classic liberal behavior. Few are willing to do anything for themselves and want the nanny-state to do it for them. They hole up in hotels and whine when someone suggests they go out and actually look for a job and support themselves. Before the storm, they shuffled their feet and waited for the government to do whatever was required--it goes on and on. Mississippi was hit just as hard if not harder, yet they're pulling themselves together, and scarcely a whine is heard.