Worst case Scenario

I can't believe how bad this has gotten in New Orleans and the surrounding area. Out family that is with us is now homeless. I don't know how I feel about having transients in my house.

These sites are good for info as they are home grown and have a huge vested interest in the area (vs. CNN and otherwise) We have spent hours watching video and trying to find good info (especially about Slidell.)

NOLA.com
wwltv.com
wdsu.com

I always knew that a hurricane of this force would be bad, but I guess one never really knows about anything until it happens. Still, statistically this type of scenario was behind schedule, and why didn't they prepare better? The stories of no plumbing and electricity and rampant rape and even death in the Superdome, the supposed salvation area, is almost as bad as outside, where they are passing up "floaters" for huge amount of people in attics and on roofs. For the people who said that Blindness was "unrealistic" read the stories and look at the pictures. Even in the face of such giant tragedy as this, probably especially in tragedy like this, people get even uglier than normal. I.E. A cop was shot in the head by a looter. A nursing home in the ninth ward with hundreds of old people trapped inside and dead. Over twenty reported rapes in the Superdome. A suicide. A budding gang war. People shitting anywhere and everywhere because there is no plumbing anyway and the bathrooms are already overflowing. It is an incredibly ugly situation. I hope that it doesn't get too much worse.