Now would be a perfect time to drop out of sight and start a new life...

[benburch]

Seems to me that the Katrina crisis, and subsequent mass dislocations of people would provide excellent cover for people from the disaster area who wanted to disappear and never be found again... As long as your fingerprints or DNA was not on file, you could just go, and nobody would ever be able to say that you didn't die in the flooding...

Just a thought that occurred to me as I contemplated the insane task of identifying 40,000 weeks dead bodies.

[electron_blue]

1. I've thought of that, too

And a related thought - how to prove you are you if the government says you died in the hurricane. Suppose you left w/o id. How would you prove you were yourself in that scenario?

[ForrestGump]

4. I'd imagine a LOT of people left without ID

It's going to be a mess.

[chaska]

2. Yes, I'm intrigued. Tell me more.

[ForrestGump]

3. I thought that, too

I've always been intrigued by that prospect but the Feds have my prints and, anyway, I can always leave the country on any given day and legally live in at least a couple of others. Still, I wonder how many people might decide to take that path, for whatever reason (good or not-so-good). And I wonder how many people who were just visiting New Orleans -- or passing through, or homeless -- vanished without a trace in the waters and will be forevermore missing. Regardless, I think some of the social fabric of these United States is going to be rippled by this horrific event, quite apart from the political and economic fallout.

[villager]

5. also mulling the same possibilities...

...not for me, though, but for those affected. Perhaps the first time in some decades that enough "records" were destroyed that somebody could "start over" with a new identity... for whatever reason.

Kind of like what folks used to be able to do by "heading West..."

[splat]

6. I want to to drop out of sight and start a new life...

I think this is changing everybody.

[kath]

7. I'd like to leave this country and start a new life.

I'm so ashamed of what's happened this past week...

[B Calm]

8. My son sent me a link to lake front property for sale in US & Canada

The first place I searched was Ontario.. http://www.lakehouse.com

[SaveAmerica]

9. I was hoping that was an announcement by Bush!! Rats

[Horse with no Name]

10. What I find TRULY frightening

is that NO--like every other city--has child molesters who will be able to do this and just "start over".:scared: