[buffaloguy]

“Did you hear of the crazy stuff going on in that stadium after Katrina?”

Most of those crazy things were fiction. It was not a good situation but workable.

I worked with a number of people from NO and they did not believe that others would help them at all. They were surprised and kept wondering at it.

New Orleans culture was quite weird.

[Lazamataz]

Okay. It is clear I cannot convince you. You are 100% convinced that, after the government spigot is turned off, the entitlement class will simply sit in their houses and watch American Idol and politely and quietly starve to death.

No worries. I'm planning for something different.

[CodeToad]

“they did not believe that others would help them at all. They were surprised and kept wondering at it.”

Thousands of private aircraft owners flew missions in relief effort on their own dime. The coordination was massive and amazing. They started flying immediately after the storm passed. So, there was a massive armada of aircraft flying in relief supplies to all points throughout a 500 mile radius of the coast.