Funny recollection here. In 1969 after hurricane Camille tore up the Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, Gulfport, Biloxi area, there was a Mississippi Hiway Patrol officer stopping traffic from crossing the Hwy 90 bay bridge from BSL to PC and he was holding a Tommy Gun to prove he was serious.
LOL, to keep out all the dangerous criminals from Waveland and BSL? Cops and government creatures in general are never more themselves than just after a hurricane, when the power-grabbing instinct overwhelms all else. It is what vexed me more than anything else after Katrina, and what the rest of the country never understood.