The more I read, the more astonished I get. I found this email reference over on The News Blog in a comments thread, apparently written by someone in Gretna (a suburb of New Orleans):

We have set up a very slick compund/ base camp for Gretna Police dept. Gnenerators/ ac, tents, bathrooms, you name it. It's a block away from our warehouse/ compound. We are very fortunate to be a part of that team (Gretna) They were light years ahead of preparing for the storm and it shows. The force is tired and stressed b/c of the threat of all the New Orleans cast aways attempting to come over the bridge into Grtetna. They have a round the clock police line. They are armed with riot guns and machine guns. [emphasis mine]

Somehow, it makes a horrible kind of sense.

A Serb/Croat/Bosnian kind of sense.

God help us all.