The 9/14 ABC report "Caviar and Camaraderie Found a Place Inside the New Orleans Convention Center" starts out like this:
The cultural spirit of New Orleans was experienced by some Hurricane Katrina survivors, who managed to dine on gourmet provisions and create a sense of community while waiting for help to reach the city's crowded convention […]
The Reuters report "After Katrina, stories of gun battles" describes the situation in Algiers Point, apparently a gentrified area with restored Victorians. Neighbors armed themselves and formed a neighborhood watch program. It describes a couple carjackings as well as a gun battle between looters and potential lootees. The latter won.
Apparently forums at this site served […]
The liberals are passing around what purports to be a first-person account of living through the hurricane, as narrated by two paramedics who claim they were in NO for a convention. There was such a convention, and the two authors appear to be paramedics. Larry Bradshaw is from the SEIU, and Lorrie Beth Slonsky […]
In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor…
"Some people became animals," Vasilioas Tryphonas said Sunday morning as he sipped a hot beer in Johnny White's Sports Bar on Bourbon Street. "We became more civilized."
…Police came through commandeering […]
