[midwestmidnight]

You go stand on that overpass for 5 days without food and water. Then you might better understand Shep's perspective.

Not that I'm taking sides or anything but, wasn't there a mandatory evacuation ordered? Didn't Shep go there voluntarily?

[TomGuy]

Not that I'm taking sides or anything but, wasn't there a mandatory evacuation ordered?

The evac order wasn't given until after the hurricane came through. The morning it was coming through, the mayor was saying he couldn't issue the order because the attorneys thought there would be too much liability.

Some 90,000 residents in NO use buses, etc., and do not have their own vehicles. By the time the evac order was given, many of them were already stranded without personal or public means of getting out.

The evac order was too little, too late.