New Orleans college student Katrina update

Point of view from a Loyola University student atDaily Kos. Pull quote: "This is important for those criticising many who stayed. Other than the poor and sick, there were those who didn't realize the severity of the situation until the mandatory evacuation call, and by then you were risking getting caught between New Orleans and Baton Rouge in a hurricane, jammed in traffic. Beyond that, though, New Orleans is a very, very poor city in areas. Despite the fact that everyone KNEW there was a population of about 100,000 folks with no way out and nowhere to go, it did not occur to anyone in government to help these people. It's come up in every discussion of a hurricane in New Orleans that I've ever seen, yet there was not a real attempt made to remedy that."