[Thud]

The whole city is a write-off. 80%+ is flooded and the rest is being forcibly evacuated, which means that the everything which is not flooded will be ruined by fire, rain, mold, mildew and whatnot during the several month period the city is vacant.

I repeat, several months of evacuation in that climate, given the extent of the flooding, means that everything except the structures of the newest & sturdiest buildings will be effective total losses.

Crime has nothing to do with it. Nature doesn't need any help from humans.

[AFPhys]

The whole city is a write-off. 80%+ is flooded and the rest is being forcibly evacuated, which means that the everything which is not flooded will be ruined by fire, rain, mold, mildew and whatnot during the several month period the city is vacant.

Exactly what I've been trying to tell people all day today. N.O. is virtually GONE... home of nearly a million people and associated business. A city that took hundreds of years to build. This is not any typical "flooding" event - it is unprecedented in American history.

[Lady Heron]

I agree with you, but you missed my point (basically a political one) which was about one segment of the population that every town has and how the looting in NO will just strengthen their resolve in the future to stay behind and fight for what is theirs in a crisis situation no matter the danger if the leadership is weak (dem).