Wow, so much for real solutions...

Reading this story, one would almost have expected somebody at some level to observe that if the people of New Orleans were more self-sufficient more of them would have been able to make it out before Hurricane Katrina hit. But I suppose that wouldn't have fit the popular narrative that Katrina's catastrophic aftermath was the result of the federal government dropping the ball, never mind that it was the local and state government's responsibility to step in before the feds took over. I know there are always going to be those who need help getting the hell out of Dodge when the time comes, but it's still worth asking why so many of them were in New Orleans -- and how many of them were in that predicament because of their own bad choices. Call me heartless, but that's just what I think.