>>>>>>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.
>
>I went to south Florida to help in the cleanup after hurricane Andrew (http://www.sptimes.com/2002/webspecials02/andrew/)
>
>The devastation there was total (like moonscape total).
>
>The looters were almost nonexistant.

I wasn't there, so I can only go by what I read, but how does this compare with the situation and response to Katrina:

By Thursday the August 27th - three -days after Andrew had struck south Florida, Dade County government officials were concerned that situation in the hardest hit areas was slipping out of control. It was reported by several TV media sources, that some of the hardest hit communities were on the verge of a complete collapse of civic order. Looting had broken out in some of the hardest hit areas, forcing residents and shop owners to carry firearms. Additionally, there was a growing risk of fatalities from lack of water and starvation. Local and state resources, it seemed, were losing ground.

In what appeared to be a low-point in the recovery effort - the Director of Dade County Emergency Management Agency (K. Hale), in a live national broadcast, angrily demanded help from the United States Federal Government. Three hours following this broadcast - President George Bush activated the 82-airborne, sending 20,000 army troops, and several Navy ships loaded with food and 200-tons of emergency supplies. After making port in Miami, ships had their cargo air lifted to the hardest hit areas. The skies over south Dade were filled with helicopters for days following Andrew.

Does this mean the Dade County folks were bunch of crybabies? Had to call in the army and get help from the government?

http://www.geocities.com/hurricanene/hurricaneandrew.htm