Now I may well have missed something cause the news lately makes my stomach
hurt.

But given what has happened since the day Katrina hit.  If you were a poor,
reasonably healthy adult.  Living in a relatively solid building - or with
access to one.  Would NOT evacuating have been such a bad idea?  Sounds like
they were no worse off than those that went to the coliseum.

Also before during and after Katrina, there were reporters in the French
Quarter.  After, they were on the air saying "Heck, that wasn't so bad!"  A
few hours later there were people dancing the in the street behind them.
Wonder how many folks in NO came back after Katrina and before the levees
broke.  Because the news made it look like it was an OK thing to do.

Jo