"This story was a bombshell to me, and no doubt to many other survivors of the New Orleans floods of August 29, 2005. (You get tired of saying Katrina all the time.) How much else has been hidden? I shudder to imagine.

I personally met people from another group that was jailed in Orleans Parish Prison for nothing more than having remained with their houses, where they were found a week later after the waters first rose, usually in the attics, dry but very hungry. These people had all the personal belongings they carried taken from them. They were given prison jumpsuits to wear, and dumped in with the regular prison population already there!
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A few days afterwards, they were brought up to Baton Rouge by Greyhound bus to be taken in at the River Center evacuee shelter a without every being given back their personal belongings. They were dumped off at the Greyhound station on Government Street, and told to walk the mile or two towards the Mississippi River to the west where they would find the Center. Imagine, there you are in prison garb, with no identification, walking through neighborhoods where people are already on edge because the mayor has characterized people from New Orleans as "thugs and criminals".
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Should those of us who were there become upset? We have nothing left with which to become upset. Our hearts are broken. All that is left for all of us are empty voids."