[lateapex911]

I WAS aware that the city requested total evacuation, but I was NOT aware that they provided the means to do so...I'd like to understand that better...

I DID hear that peole were "invited" to the Superdome, as a last resort, but that there was no guarantee that it could withstand a Cat 5 storm, and that anyone entering should bring 5 days food and water.

I also read of multiple shootings, rapes, thefts and beatings INSIDE the Superdome.....one has to imagine that people were desperate...but rape??? I can be only so understanding....and rape is way over the line. The actual reported number of rapes was over a dozen...I wonder how many unreported? It is unfathonable how one or two bad apples could do so much damage...well, one or two didn't...much larger numbers did...and how were these scum seprated form the rest?? They weren't, were they?

I know someone with a home in a not so nice area, and I have asked her about her plans in the event of a storm.."Get out" was the response. It is impossible to actually live there and not know these basic truths:

1- you live under sea level
2- A big strom can flood your city, and your home...it happens regularly. A really BIG storm will do more......right?
3- When that happens, no plumbing, water, electricty, etc.
4- There was a BIG strom predicted many days in advance, and it was steady and aiming for your town.
5- There were chances to get out.

BUT...many didn't. But why then knowing the above, were they so POORLY prepared?? No excuse to have no food and water! I mean just go to the faucet a few days in advance and fill some bottles with water! No money needed! Canned goods ...sorry, but $20 bucks can buy some basic survival food, throw it in a bag with the bottles of water, the ax and get to the attic.

Look, I feel bad and the situation is horrific..way worse than people believed could actually happen, ....and the government from the local to the state to the national level needs to look unto themselves as this could have been handled better....

BUT, the victims themselves, (not all, but a too large proportion) have not exactly shown a whole lot of effort for themselves...just a lot of "why is it taking so long" complaints.

It smacks, I am sorry to say, of a very "Entitled" thought process.