Naw, the Vidor businessmen were buncha louts. Took no trouble at all in taking their businesses.
Now some of the Vidor churches were A-OK. When Katrina came, twenty odd churches gathered together (all of them overwhelmingly white) with the Red Cross and state agencies, who warned them about liability issues. The church heads confabbed and told the other agencies that the did not know about "liability" but they did know "they were covered by the blood of Christ."
They opened three shelters, served almost 400 evacuees (almost all black), and did Christs' work the whole time.
Their commitment to God and His children probably kept Katrina from wiping them out when Rita hit the following month. Kamas, a den of vipers, was not so lucky.