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If people had LISTENED to the warnings to get out of NOLA there wouldnot have been so many dead.....and OH YEAH i thought it was going to be TEN thousand!.

I didn't see people walking out of NOLA and that means they didn't REALLY think they needed to leave

Those that will say a blizzard is no big deal have never experienced one themselves IMHO.

New Orleans is, technically an Island. That is why people didn't walk out. To the north is Lake Pontchartrain where the bridges collapsed. In the east is the Mississippi river and cops on the other side wouldn't let anyone from New Orleans cross over. The south is the Gulf.

To get out, one would have to walk west all the way around the bottom of the lake to the Kenner area which is about 20 miles away, get on i-55 and walk another 35 miles on a raised highway through nothing but swamp, just to get to anything resembling civilization. You would arrive there only to find that there were no services there either.

At that point, you are in the swamp with no services and would have to get back up on the raised highway, traverse ANOTHER 35 miles just to get to the next swamp town on the North Shore. Oh, and you can't get off this raised highway unless you have climbing gear and don't mind fighting the gators 20-30 feet below.

Besides, those trapped were bounded by floodwater on the western side so even if a person could have gotten through, that 80-90 mile walk with no food or water in the blazing heat would have done them in, probably.