[Mila]

"New Orleans residents should take note - the people of Fargo are working their asses off to save their city"

Fargo residents should take note -a hurricane is not like a river flood. Apart from securing your property, and taking care of loved ones and pets there isn't much you can do except find a place to go and go there as quickly as you can. Not as easy as you might think when the course of a hurricane can change in a matter of hours and you might find yourself smack dab in the middle of the very thing you were trying to escape.

"They are evacuating areas BEFORE the dikes give out as a precaution."

Don't form your opinions of all New Orleanians by what you saw on CNN et al in the days following the storm.

80% of the residents of the city evacuated before Katrina blew through.

"Evacuaees are not being robbed and raped"

"Volunteers are not being robbed or shot at"

Didn't happen, urban legend

They Shoot Helicopters, Don't They?

How journalists spread rumors during Katrina.

Matt Welch | December 2005

http://www.reason.com/news/show/36327.html

"The cities have clearly staged evacuation plans and is communicating effectively with residents."

We knew what to do, and we did it. See picture above.

[B-Chan]

And what is the most obvious difference between the people in your photo and those those that remained behind?

[gore_sux]

I personally know people who went down to help rebuild New Orleans and had their entire truck and trailer, which were full of tools, stolen while they were down there, so no it is not an urban legend.

And I don’t see why residents can’t start filling sandbags when storms are forming in the gulf to reinforce levees like a flood.