WE'VE HEARD ALOT ABOUT BAD BEHAVIOR IN POST-APOCALYPSE NEW ORLEANS

Let's hear about some amazing good behavior:

NEW ORLEANS - When their homes began to sink in Katrina's floodwaters, elders in the quarter here known as Uptown gathered their neighbors to seek refuge at the Samuel J. Green Charter School, the local toughs included.

But when the thugs started vandalizing the place - wielding guns and breaking into vending machines - Vance Anthion put them out, literally tossing them into the fetid waters. Anthion stayed awake at night after that, protecting the inhabitants of the school from looters or worse.

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Inside the school, it was quiet, cool and clean. They converted a classroom into a dining room and, when a reporter arrived Monday, were serving a lunch of spicy red beans and rice. A table nearby overflowed with supplies: canned spaghetti, paper towels, water and Gatorade, salt, hot sauce, pepper.

Mmmm...hot sauce. Tabasco Sauce's HQ was just outside New Orleans. Those folks might have been consuming the city's last remaining stash.

Anyway. The hot sauce distracted me there for a minute. It's good to see that some people remained civilized even when the world was collapsing around them.

They are American citizens.

(via InstaPundit)

UPDATE: This story and the info below brings up another lesson learned for Glenn's list: Do not assume a big building will be a better shelter than a little one. This article from last year was available for New Orleans residents that asked tough questions about their city's evac plan:

It appears a facility as large as the Dome could hold up in hurricane conditions but Bill Curl, spokesman for the Superdome, says that is yet to be tested and if there is no other choice then maybe the Dome could serve as a shelter.

“Only in dire emergencies. The Superdome is not a shelter,” said Curl.

According to Curl, the assumption that the Superdome can withstand hurricane force winds is just that: an assumption. He says more analysis is needed to determine what the Dome can actually withstand because previous wind studies have become somewhat irrelevant since they did not factor in the new high-rise buildings around the Dome.

“They create a wind tunnel effect and that needs to be tested. There were initial studies that indicated 130 miles per hour, but we don’t know,” said Curl. He adds that the Dome is not impervious to the same elements other areas would be exposed to.

“If we were to lose power, if we were to lose plumbing facilities, if a storm were to hit and create flooding in the area; the Superdome would not be a desirable place to be,” he said.

(via Hugh Hewitt and as mentioned in our recent NRO article)