"Funny, I always thought of him more as an evacuation expert, seeing as he did such a marvelous job with getting the city of New Orleans to head out before the hurricane, of which they had FIVE DAYS NOTICE OF ITS APPROACH, to head out and stay safe." No thanks to Nagin, 80% of the population, which pre-Katrina was almost 500,000, evacuated themselves before the storm came through.
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