Ack! You watch FOX?!!! Hopefully it's for laughs, or to get a raging hate-on. I've been flipping compulsively through the news channels, and it seems to me that the majority of the coverage has just been about how horrible it is for EVERYONE, reguardless of age. Yesterday was the first day I started seeing reporting on dead folks, and it was mostly about dead adults, so well...there's that, I guess.
Also, since you've been watching Fox, and might have the impression that all the folks who stayed were there for fun, looting potential,because they hate the government, or are just plain stupid. There are alot of different reasons why people of all colors and levels of wealth stayed. Hell, Fats Domino stayed, and he's a pretty rich and well known musician who probably had the ability to leave and could afford to stay in a hotel. Remember, pets aren't allowed in shelters, some folks have elderly relatives or neighbors of limited mobility and stayed to take care of them, extreme poverty, inablity to get reasonably priced transportation (amtrak and greyhound were both closed by noon on saturday), tourists and -ahem- hospital staff and patients who weren't evacuated even though the Mayor said to evacuate the city.
I saw some heartbreaking footage a couple days ago of an elderly couple on a roof with a dog. I was sort of not paying attention too much, so I looked up and saw them getting in the boat, and looked up again to see the boat pulling away...with the dog still on the roof. I can not even imagine how horrible it would be to stay through a hurricane with your pet, have to go on the roof with your pet, and then get rescued only to have to leave it behind...because they don't allow pets in shelters. If you want to help the animals down there, the American Humane Association is down there now. http://www.americanhumane.org/site/PageServer?pagename=pa_disaster_relief