To some degree you can't blame them if their very life depends on it.
If you can't get out, and there's no hope you ever will; you'd be raiding the shops for food and water and dry clothes. It's just a survival instinct. The cops there are reduced to the same level as well. Their shelter and communications are gone in some large areas. They are hungry and thirsty too. With no help of getting out.

The scope of this disaster is amazing and appalling all at once.
Like people living beneath a live volcano, they take their chances.
I guess people always like to play the odds.

The storm surge looks as bad as the tsunami in Asia. I hear the severe wind damage goes in as much as 25 miles or more. (I would think it would be a hundred or more....) There is so much to cover I don't think a proper assessment has been done. Thousands more will die today in their flooded attics or perish from the fright, heat and dehydration.
97` in New Orleans today and no drinking water? No food?
That's HELL ON EARTH.

I sometimes wonder if Revelations is something we'll all experience on a personal level while still in the flesh.