Anywhere is a terrible place to be black and poor, isn't it? I'm sure New York, Pittsburgh, London, etc. are not much better.

The disgusting thing to me is that, once evacuation orders were given, the government should have made sure that people COULD evacuate. Where was all this help BEFORE the storm wiped the place out?

I work for the medical center in Houston, which will soon be flooded (no sick puns intended, trust me) with hurricane refugees who need emergency health care and don't have money or insurance to pay for it. We're a large city with a large underclass and a high violent crime rate--our ER's are not underused as it is. This is going to be very, very hard on us, too.