We really haven’t had a situation like this.

[Victims’ desperate need] comes into people’s living rooms, and, I suppose, they can’t avoid it, … There’s also a certain amount of, not guilt, maybe, but thankfulness that ‘It’s not us. We still have electricity.’...

people assess their own risk, make their own judgments.

If I ‘ m living in New Orleans, … and somebody tells me to go to the Superdome, I ‘ d be damned reluctant to go there.

If Im living in New Orleans, … and somebody tells me to go to the Superdome, Id be damned reluctant to go there.

Even in communities without such deep roots, there is more continuity to a way of life than most people realize.