"A hopeless situation. Faced with letting people suffer horrendously in over 100 degree heat with no prospects of rescue"
Katrina had trapped quite a lot of people in that situation, the young, the elderly, the handicapped ... with people in that state of hoplessness and misery, should all hope have been put aside and somehow perform a mass euthanasia to 'put them out of there misery" via what ever methods mankind has developed.