Get out, but make sure to take my family and probably friends too. If they were fixed on staying, though, I'd stay with them. But I don't see why they would want to continue living there, based on how they are; but I understand it must be difficult for others.

Wasn't a lot of New Orleans still a mess when Gustav was threatening? They have it on the news over here sometimes, about how swaths of the city are still as they were in 2006, but the American government won't move on it. Maybe they're the ones who see no sense in rebuilding things they think will just get knocked down again.