Chaos

While the devastation in New Orleans has been staggering, I'm at a complete loss for how quickly the city degenerated into a lawless zone or anarchy. Looting is running rampant, snipers shooting at buses, teens with guns reportedly raping girls, etc. It sounds like the scenes from an end of the world movie. And most disturbing of all is that US government officials seem to be at a complete loss as to what to do next. How can this be?

To anyone with even a cursory knowledge of New Orleans you have to know that its below sea level and protected from flooding by some levees. For years scientists have shown that a hurricane hit could threaten the city with flooding. How could there not be a plan to move the military in and evacuate the city should the worst case scenario occur? What's plan B? Was there even a thought of making plan B? What about plan A?

There's something rotten in the state of Louisianna.