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If you want to depress yourself as I have been doing all day, best photos are here:
http://www.nola.com/hurricane/photos/

and most recent local articles are here:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/

Scroll down and read the article titled "City a Woeful Scene"

N.O. is such an impoverished city, I can't even fathom how that many people are going to deal with this financially. The people in the 9th Ward don't have home owners insurance. It's all so f'd up. I mean... there are people in the middle of a flood zone breaking into WalMart and walking past food and water to steal a big screen TV when they have no access to fresh water and food. How f*cked up is the mentality in that community?


This is what I've been worring about. The extreme poverty, not just in N.O. but in almost every America city, makes disasters like this much worse that they really need to be. US poverty These people had no way to leave. Were there buses to take people who wanted to leave the city to shelters further north?

The NOLA.com people have been doing a great job, I can only imagine the stress that they must be under. They are literally witnessing the utter collapse of their historic city. I was hoping for more uplifting news this morning, but instead it seems to be even worse.