Seriously? Seriously?? Correct me if I’m wrong but I seem to recall that they made it through the storm ok. The breach of the levees caused most of the damage in New Orleans. Meanwhile, my relatives in Mississippi lost EVERYTHING during Katrina but understand that living where they do comes with significant risks. And they’re rebuilding. Using insurance money. Not dependent on the government to take care of them. Concept.
That's very admirable, but the 80% of the city of New Orleans' population that evacuated(approx.364,000)were not allowed back into the area for almost a month, so we didn't have that option. If you think back you might remember that, after the storm, the infrastructure here was so destroyed that the people who remained actually had to be taken out of the city. My family and I had evacuated to Birmingham ahead of Katrina and right after the storm my husband left my daughter and me there and tried to get back in, but he was turned back by state police.
BTW, it's rather hard to clear streets and roads that have many feet of flood water standing in them. A few areas, like the Vieux Carre, were able to come back pretty quickly because, due to their higher position, they remained relatively dry.