[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.

[NormsRevenge]

A lesson is being learned the hard way.

Relying on accurate info from your local and state gubamints while the networks are showing reasons to be concerned for lack of direction or consistency from same said govt agencies can lead to dire consequences.


New Orleans is the exception, not the norm, as natural disasters go, imo.

I wish all the media there well, but let them also remember the magnitude of what hit this area and how so many were and are trapped in a punchbowl, mostly of their own making.

Yes, there are some that would have had difficulty getting out regardless but the numbers in need are much larger than anyone could have reasonably expected and delays in calling for mandatoiry evacuation only axacerbated the problems now at hand.

I won't play the blame game, at this point, there's plenty to go around.

[serpentineshel]

Mandatory and voluntary evacuation orders were given for Southern Louisiana on Saturday morning:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050827/ap_on_re_us/tropical_weather_37

Mandatory evacuations for New Orleans were called for on Sunday morning:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8C94K3G0.html

The storm hit on Monday morning.

[cgbg]

An evac order without an evac plan for folks who depend on buses is like an order to arrest looters when there is nowhere to take them and no way to get there.

The Mayor and Governor are characters straight out of Monty Python.

I want to sue them for criminal negligence because my tax dollars are paying to rescue people who shouldn't have been stuck in the bowl to begin with. Just to be clear, I am not blaming the residents of the city. I am blaming their leaders who failed to implement a real evacuation plan (if they had one) or failed to create one if they didn't.

[midwestmidnight]

I'm pretty sure that there was an evac order given before the hurricane struck and Shep probably didn't get there by bus.