I kinda feel sorry for the looters in a way. They are probably so poor, probably uneducated, are so desperate that at a time like this, they can only think of material posessions. It's very sad.
Thing is, they aren't going to be able to actually USE all the electronics they are stealing until the electricity comes back on. Now they have to keep themselves from being looted. The looters become the lootees.
There is a very important lesson in it. A lot of middle class and wealthier people grabbed a few items of sentimental value and headed to Houston even before the traffic, and certainly as soon as the order was given. They didn't load up, they just got out.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of those who stayed did so just so they could take part in the looting. They are wading through feces-laden water to steal something that probably won't survive the week anyway.
As much as the class warriors like to claim it is the case, over and over again I find that wealthy people actually tend to care less about material things than poor people. I know only a few greedy wealthy people, but most of the poorest people I have ever met have been wholly preoccupied with "stuff."
God doesn't need to do anything to punish us, the worst sinner is also the most self-destructive.
What a big heart you have, Abigail! What nice compassion, and no, I am not being sarcastic.
Don't get too damn sentimental. These are the same clowns who spend 24/365 in NO in every other city looking for ways to take things that aren't theirs. Today, with police busy elsewhere and most citizens gone, they are simply free to do on a large scale what they do on smaller scale every other day of the year.