All Nagin had to do was:
1) Listen up when the head of the National Weather Service called him Friday night at home and begged him to order a mandatory evacuation.
2) Follow his OWN evacuation plan.
3) Included in that plan were clear guidelines to use city, commercial and school buses to help the disabled and those without resources.
4) Make sure the designated shelters had adequate food/water.
That's all he had to do. I certainly do expect mayors of all cities to follow The Plan.
What I don't expect is for them to have to write the plan because I have a full understanding that most of them are too stupid to write a plan on how to take out the garbage.
What I don't expect is for mayors to ignore warnings, ignore their own plan, and ignore the poor.
I've never heard so many self-described conservatives wanting the government to exercise the power to force people to leave private property.