I know how NO is too...I lived in NO and Baton Rouge for 5 yrs of my childhood. New Orleans is not all jazz and tourism and beignets and cafe au lait. New Orleans is also abject poverty, shortage of good jobs, poor schools with no decent supplies, 5 generations passing through the same shacky 120 year old home because that is all they have. These people depend on rides to work, or the bus, or they walk to their jobs if they live near the central business district or french quarter. You have the same idea of reality as Rush Limbaugh. He asked today why didn't those people evacuate. Someone told him it was because they didn't have a car. Then he said well why don't they have a car? It's not that they were too stubborn to evacuate or didn't heed the warnings, its that they COULDN'T evacuate. That is why the city put them up or tried to put them up in the superdome. You sit all snug as a bug in a rug in your nice dorm room up there on campus in Dahlonega, and you don't have a frickin clue what it is to really suffer, I mean REALLY suffer, to go through garbage cans for food, watch old ladies in wheelchairs die in the street and watch babies crying in the 100 degree heat. HOW DARE YOU critizise their choices!! YOU live on those streets in that poverty for one week, one week and I bet you'll think twice about making such ignorant, uncaring statements again.