...and 9/11 in NYC was a few blocks. Katrina in NOLA was the entire city (and several states' coastlines). Absolutely NO comparison between NYC & NOLA, size-wise.
HAve you noticed that when natural disasters hit liberal areas, the citizens complain to the Nth degree...
But when natural disasters hit mostly conservative areas, the people pick themselves up by their bootstraps and do the hard work without complaining to the government.
Just a thought............