It’s not nice to call others stupid when you’re defending what is now clearly a mistake. The first time in history that a mayor of New York has ordered a mass evacuation, and it’s a mistake.
As for New Orleans, what was the mistake? Not evacuating the city because (A) the tail end of storm that hit Mississippi might cause the rickety dikes of the city to burst and flood the below sea level portions of the place, (B) that the Governor would then resist the President’s request to federalize the disaster, and (C) that the inept and corrupt municipal government and police force that, worse than doing nothing, would engage in criminal activity during the outbreak of anarchy in the city? I suppose it would be good to consider how rotten is the government in a place, in preparing contingency plans. But, is New York City as badly governed as New Orleans?
You are calling it a mistake? What a joke. The current forecast track is exactly the track to maximize surge into NYC.