Survivor Mississippi Style

American's join together in times of crisis, sometimes breaking the law. Looters or Saviors?

The above linked Washington Post article talks about some of these men and women who when it became clear help wasn't coming? Acted.

In Gulfport, Warr did everything by the book, right up until he started stealing. His force of 225 police officers and 190 firefighters stayed on the job in 24-hour shifts.

Worst of all, the city was running out of fuel. Generators were about to fail, rescue vehicles were running out of gas. One local hospital radioed that it was on backup power and had no water, and that looters were circling.

Warr turned to his chief of police, Stephen T. Barnes. There was a private fuel transport vehicle -- Warr doesn't remember whose -- parked in a lot behind a chain-link fence. Warr had the lock cut. "Can we hot-wire it?" he asked.

Barnes said, "I wasn't cut out to be a crook; that's why I went into law enforcement."

"Well, can we get someone from the jail to do it?" Warr asked.

There's alot more at the article even some about Trent Lott demonstrating that the system that he helped create didn't work out quite so efficient.