So my family has been discussing all this quite a bit lately. We came up with this, considering, there is no way to pay for things in N.O. (no check out clerks ya know). What would you loot if you had been there and stayed through Katrina.
In my household there are two 50 yr olds, me (27), twin 4yr olds, and a 16 month old. No, we wouldn't have stayed anyway, but we were thinking, what if we had been there and "ended up" staying there for whatever reasons.
We would loot,
no more than 3 sets of clothing a piece, 3 backpacks, diapers, wipes, no more than a months worth of blood pressure meds (If we hadn't brought them with us), bottled water, canned foods, and a can opener. Oh, and a toy for each kid, and maybe a couple books, blankets, soap, and a few first aid type things. That's all, and no more than what we could carry on us at any one given time.
No water logged big screen TVs, game systems, DVD players or anything we didn't immediately NEED. We also brought up that we would take a notebook and pen so that we could write down what we took to repay the business we took from.
Keeping in mind, we would only take those things if we weren't smart enough to had thought of it before we spent 3 hours waiting to get into the super dome. Considering, where we live, that list is basically what they tell us to keep in the trunk of our cars at all times in case of emergencies, we would probably have all that with us already and have no NEED to loot.
One more what would you do. As it Currently stands for you, if you had two days warning about the storm (which they did) what would you do, what would you take?
We are fortunate enough to own a camper. We would have packed what we could into our camper, two trucks and van, including our pets, and items of personal value and left ASAP. No waiting, we would have food and shelter where ever we ended up, and could help who we could. As I said though, we are the lucky.