[janetjanet998]

right now this is looking like 90% the state Local governments fault and 10% the feds(slow response by Fema AFTER) yet the media is trying to blame it on the Feds

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[satchmodog9]

Great idea.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1476775/posts

[manwiththehands]

Agreed, and 90% of the local blame lands squarely on the mayor. Think "catagory 5 hurricane heading towards MY CITY". Think "busses ... lots of busses". Think "evacuation". Or don't think.

[oceanview]

good point.

the first challenge - many of our own freepers who are posting misinformation and jumping on the "blame FEMA", "FEMA did nothing", "fire Brown" bandwagon.

[rocksblues]

bump

[satchmodog9]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1477148/posts

[Polybius]

The "Hurricane Pam Exercise", conducted in 2004, illustrates what the Governor and Mayor knew or should have known about a slow-moving Category 3 storm or greater.

It also illustrates that the Federal response scenario was based on New Orleans being evacuted before the storm hit.

Hurricane Pam Exercise Concludes.(2004 New Orleans Disaster Prediction) U.S. Government FEMA news release ^ | July 23, 2004 |

[Polybius]

I have recieved FreepMail from a Freeper who captured dated and timed live-cam images of the New Orleans evaciation route on Sunday evening to his computer C-Drive.

The photos show that the in-bound lane to New Orleans was unused and NOT OPENED TO OUT-BOUND TRAFFIC.

The Freeper does not know how to get the images posted.

Does anybody have a secure web site and a Hotmail address he can send the photos to so they can be posted?

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FreepMail to Polybius...........

Well, here is some more information on those pictures. The time stamps were in military time, so, here are the times.

These picture of the causeway, and other live webcams anyone could have seen in New Orleans before, during, ( I don't know now ) maybe, after the storm. These pictures were taken in ( I guess, 3 min or 5 mins apart) .

The first pictures cleary shows all of the vehicles coming out from NEW ORLEANS, and the inbound lanes wide open with no traffic at all ( either way ) on it.

1 # Picture time stamp. 8 / 28 / 2005 - HR : 16:21:02 PM
2# 8/28/05 - HR : 16:25:25 PM.
3# 8/28/05 - HR : 16:34:31 PM.
4# 8/28/05 - HR : 17:04:34 PM.
5# 8/28/05 - HR : 18:52:19 PM.

I was mistaken before, these pictures were taken last Sunday evening.

From picture 1 to 3 , you can see many vehicles getting out of New Orleans, and there are very dark ominious cloud in the sky, and from picture 3 to 4, the traffice starts to clear to a trickle, and the clouds clear up some, but, in the last picture, there are no vehicles on the N.O. causeway.

I just checked some of the pictures, only in one picture, do I see only one vehicle going inbound back into New Orleans.

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[TADSLOS]

From the City's website:

New Orleans Preparedness and Evacuation Plan