a whole gun collection was stolen at Walmart.

Yeah, that's where it gets circular.

Why did you steal the guns?

Well, there were all these looters, and I had to protect myself. You know. By looting.

Actually, I'd probably do the same if I had water/food/meds and wanted to be sure I kept them until the next morning.

"We are looking at 12 to 16 weeks before people can come in," Mayor Ray Nagin said on ABC's "Good Morning America....

Three months?????? Egad.

Tulane University is closed indefinitely.

Yeah, I get the feeling we're moving from Superdome to Thunderdome. Heartbreaking, and scary as hell.

a police officer was shot in the head in NO (he is expected to recover)

He was shot last night. The story I heard was that the police arrested four people and had shot one of them during the gunfight that led to the officer's wounding (he was shot in the head).

The National Guard is apparently still having trouble getting people on the street. From the way it sounds it's all a logistics nightmare: No communications grid and poor communications between the various parties involved.

So...25K of the people in the Superdome are being moved via bus convoy to the Houston Astrodome.

Now we start the clock until how long this makes it into some campaign for a municipally funded stadium.

So, about two or three hundred people dressed up as zombies and invaded an upscale shopping mall in Vancouver

Also, a group of zombies recently attended the American Idol auditions in Austin

So zombies are the new flash mob?

Gah. Have a half million (or more) people ever been displaced in America before? Maybe in the Civil War....

Oh, and those internment camps in WWII.

There was a zombie flashmob (one of the first, I think) that stormed a medieval battle reenactment on Mont Royal in Montreal. Hysterical. The reenactors seemed to have a great time playing along.

So zombies are the new flash mob?

Yeah. The Vancouver thing was considered a flash mob.

Also,

Muntean's group is part of a "zombie renaissance" that, according to a Los Angeles Daily News article, is sweeping the nation.

...

Later that month, a man named David, who would like to keep his last name confidential, organized a zombie mob in San Francisco. The actors shuffled across the city on July 24, ending up in front of an Apple store, where they smeared fluids on the windows and looked for brains.

They didn't find any.

David says he supports all groups of zombies.

"We stand beside them in their quest for more brains," he said of the Austin event. "If they find any brains there, they should let us know."

Have a half million (or more) people ever been displaced in America before?

tommy, those would be my guesses. But I don't think they displaced that many people in a 3-day span.

Though I don't know enough about the WWII internment camps to be sure on that score.