Escape from New Orleans?

In today's sfgate, an article by San Francisco Chronicle journalist Chip Johnson details yet another shocking firsthand account by two Bay Area paramedics who were in New Orleans for a conference as the post-Katrina waters rose. When they found no immediate help coming, they tried to hire busses. When those busses were commandeered by the National Guard, they tried to walk out...only to be turned away at gunpoint by police of other towns. As they said, I wouldn't have believed it if they weren't there to see it themselves.

I need to be cheered up, so I think I'll go so Exorcism of Emily Rose tonight. Either that, or watch my cherished Dawn of the Dead DVD again. I don't know about you, but when movies about exorcisms and zombies become light-hearted comic pick-me-ups, something's amiss.