Well, I know something about the chaos of a hurricane. I'll never forget what happened after Hurricane Andrew wiped out a large swath of Homestead, Florida. Water systems, communications (including the Doppler weather station), power and similar infrastructure systems were inoperative for days or weeks in some spots. Roadways were impassible, so police and emergency people couldn't get in to give aid and assistance. There was sporadic, but not really rampant, looting and price gouging and such unpleasant behavior.
Now, if you accept the notion that, without the imposition of government control, we all turn into murderous savages, then you'd expect to have seen a lot of rape, murder and total bedlem in the wake of that devistating storm. What happened instead was that FEMA set up checkpoints to keep people who wanted to go lend assistance from entering the worst areas. Many of them snuck around the roadblocks and went ahead wrecklessly delivering clean water, food and other necessities to the people stranded there. The biker clubs were an especially big help, as they had better mobility and practically no fear of authority. People already there formed loose organizations to look after kids and property while others took their bikes or hoofed it to go find water and other necessities.
In no time at all, people rebuilt or worked around all that had been torn down by the storm.
Chaos is like a vacume. The universe resists it and so does normal, default human nature.
To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
http://laissezfairebooks.com/product.cfm?op=view&pid=FF7485&aid=10247' target='_new'> Thomas Jefferson Letter to Elias Shipman and others of New Haven, July 12, 1801.