[highlymotivated]

THAT is why you store NON PERISHABLE items and bottled water BEFORE it happens. You can also store water for six months in containers with 8 drops of household bleach (plain type) and then capped off. I bought 5 5 gallons COLLAPSABLE containers online and in a threat they get filled up. I have a trunk of rice, beans, etc, ready to be cooked over a small charcoal stove.

It's called BEING PREPARED.

Also, I have a lot of guns to defend the castle with.

[Decombobulator]

How many Americans actually store food and water for emergencies? I'm guessing 0.0001%. Besides, New Orleans is a pretty poor area, most of those people live in apartments, they don't have room to store supplies.

[frogjerk]

Also, If all of the stores were empty prior to the storm because people were buying up all of the supplies, why is the looting so rampant?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Mormons, (of which I am not one) love them or hate them. But, all Americans would be well advised to emulate the measures all Mormons take for having longterm emergency essential food, water and survival supplies on hand.