>>>>Here we go:
>>>>
>>>>State of Emergency:
>>>>http://www.wral.com/weather/story/3480798/
>>>>Be Prepared:
>>>>http://readync.com/
>>>>
>>>>Everyone is really getting ready for Ike (just in case)...
>>>
>>>Is the federal government going to give you billions of $$ to keep you from looting/murdering/raping/etc like the folks in NO did?
>>
>>
>>In all the years I've been here, and all the hurricanes I've live through, I've only heard of looting a couple of times. In those cases, it was a couple of kids with a history of thieving anyway and the buzzards were carted off to jail...
>
>Kinda like IOWA and floods or other disasters.
>
>Strange how NO has their own set of morals and rules.

I know what you mean, but at the same time, to be fair, none of the others suffered quite the destruction that NO did or quite the same displacement of people. There are certainly some similarities, but it's not exactly apples and apples.