Montblack wrote:

Hurricane Rodney King ...I shake my head at the area's local, city,
state and federal govt officials more though, WRT those levees ...and
about ten other issues.

It's like the potato famine in Ireland, when do you say 'enough is
enough' and make the decision to leave all that you've ever known? (Now
would be a good time)

Head north, or west, on foot and I'm sure that over a distance of 30-40
miles people will have garden hoses that you can drink from - 15 hour
walk for someone out of shape. Next day walk another 30-40 miles and I
bet a family, or a church, would take you in. I'd take in someone who
walked 75 miles over two days!!

Walk another 25 miles the third day - I bet your accommodations would
improve the further away from NO you'd get. By day four you should be
able to catch a ride. To where? I don't know - where do Mexicans go when
they walk across the border? To jobs...

This isn't for everyone, but I would think 10%-20% of the needy
refugees(?) left in the flooded city could make it work for them.

Good luck.

700 refugee students were registered for school in Lafayette parish
today, over 200 here at Eunice high school, 7 in Iota. These are just
the ones that arrived here, after they were told to evacuate...