True, but they got a handle on it quickly in Mississippi; much more quickly (IMHO) than the mere scale would suggest.
Perhaps, maybe the authorities in Mississippi are brilliant as the authorities in NO are inept. I still think scale has a lot to do with it but the flooding is the primary difference. If NO hand't flooded the police, National Guard, and other officials could have gotten in there and clamped down on lawlessness right away. Not to mention they wouldn't be spending 90% of their resources and three days rescuing people from the roofs. As for the people themselves they would be standing around looking at their decimated homes trying to salvage what they could, like they are in Ms rather than being bussed out of state. People are coming BACK to Coastal Ms and can already start to cleanup. They're are just too many differences to compare NO to Coastal Ms at least in my mind.
BTW: My dad is from Canton, Ms, and is living there now along with my uncle who fled his home in NO.