The mayor of NO is even more incompetent than the governor. He says he is having someone research his power to order an evacuation, even though it has been ordered in every other parish around. He is hiding behind legalisms. In dire emegencies, one doesn't consult lawyers. He worries about the ill not being given a hospital bed and the tourists having their hotels shut down. He hasn't figured out that fleets of buses should have been ordered into NO to pick folks out, and trains sent in for folks to get into cattle cars to move north. He wrings his hands knowing that NO is likely to be a death zone, and under water, with nothing alive except in third story buildings and above, assuming they survive the winds. A tragedy is in the making, a great tragedy, unless mother nature does something unexpected.
What??? They haven't figured this out before now??
Idiots.
I fear you are correct, we can only pray for the unexpected, and for any and all in the path.