The New York Post does some reporting and presents a different face of New Orleans.
While the rest of the media covers the people who have left the city today, the Post covers the people that didn’t leave the city.
About 1,400 police officers and 2,000 National Guard troops patrolled the streets to prevent a repeat of the lawlessness and chaos that followed Katrina.
Gun and ammo stores were doing brisk business among those who refused to leave and who weren’t entirely convinced the cops and National Guardsmen could protect them.
Ray Hoffmann, 72, had his trusty shotgun by his side to protect himself and his wife, Margaret.
“I was born in 1935. I lived through a hurricane in 1947.
I lived through Rita and then Katrina, and my house is over 100 years old, and there has never been any damage to it.
The problems are when the looters come through,” Hoffmann told The Post last night.
Joann Guidos, who owns Kajun’s Pub in the Faubourg Marigny section, said that the worst part during Katrina wasn’t the 12 inches of water on the bar floor, it was the looting.
Now she has a knife, a pistol, a sniper’s rifle and an assortment of other guns in her house next door to the bar.
“I haven’t shot anybody yet, but if I have to, I will,” she said.
“You have a lot of real idiots in this city.”
