We're pretty tired of it here in NOLA too.
My office is in Midcity, New Orleans. This area gets zero press but was just as devastated as the 9th Ward. I have been back here since eary November. When we got back, there were no working street lights, no power, no nothing. The place was a ghost town.
On May 22 2006, there are still remanants of the storm here, but on the whole the area is coming back big time. Mostly, we did it ourselves.
The people of St. Bernard had their entire Parish leveled. Everytime I head over there, I am impressed with the progress.
If you didn't allow the news media to play to your biases, you might realize the majority of people here are attempting to improve the situation.
I've seen a lot of people working hard to improve life for a lot of people.
A Florida panhandle county actually refused some FEMA/CoE assistance because they decided to suck it up and do for themselves.
That same area was hit by Ivan, Dennis, and yes, even Katrina. Had that area not already had Ivan and Dennis clear out the weak trees, Katrina would have caused significant damage in the western counties of the Florida panhandle.
No cruise ships or credit cards for those folks, however.
So I'll spend my money elsewhere on the Gulf coast.