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This is sounding like a worst case scenario....we can debate the planning or lack there of Nut in the meantime I'm thinking we do "the impossible".....we went into a hostile & inacessable part of the world after the sunami....so how about this:

1) send all available large military transport planes to assist in evacuating the city.
2) Red Cross; Salvation Army & Natl. Guard set up safety areas near military bases to provide for the evacuees
2)Priority passengers could be hospitals; nursing homes; families

>This is sounding like a worst case scenario.

Let's not jump through our asses.

This is far from a worst case anything. This is like big hurricanes that we in the Coastal regions from TX to Mass have loved through for 200 years. This is bad but far from the worst we have seen.

No need to panic. Some will die; usually the idiots who stay in unsafe houses to "ride it out" because they think they can do something. Also lots of casualties after "Hurricane parties."

FEMA will come in after the hurricane and spread millions of dollars around, often to homes/homeowners with no real storm damage, just looking for a handout.

The houses and buildings were built (in dangerous areas.) They will be rebuild. Life will go on.

The eye of Charlie passover my house last year. The eyes of Francis and Jean passed within 20 miles. Each morning, the neighbors were up by 6:00, got our streets cleared ourselves, checked for everyone, started our generators and cooked breakfast on the barbie. Kept a 12 guage and a 23 Glock ready for looters, but no sweat.

Much easier than RVN, No one shooting at us.

Be safe. Its no big thing. You can handle it.

re: ".....we went into a hostile & inaccessible part of the world after the tsunami..

The key word here is "after." I thought we were discussing what could be done before the storm hits.

re: send all available large military transport planes to assist in evacuating the city.

It takes time, 12 hours or more, to set up and deploy aircraft like the C-141 or the C-5A. The weather in and around NO will deteriorate to below minimums for safe operation several hours before the eye makes landfall. The NO airport can barely handle the crowd of a normal business day, let alone the thousands and thousands who would descend on it for possible evacuation. Also, the military does not have that many large transport planes that are configured for passengers, mostly cargo.

How will it be decided, and who will decide, who gets evacuated. There will not be room or time for everyone so some form of triage will be necessary. If you plan for the sick first then you have the problem of transporting them t the airport. Surface streets will be jammed with vehicles trying to get to the evacuation routes and the ambulances will have as hard a time getting around as the evacuees.

re: safety areas near military bases to provide for the evacuees

Are there any major bases close enough to the evacuation area to be of help. The problem will still be how to handle a million plus vehicles trying to use highways that barely handle the daily rush hour traffic.

Please do not misunderstand me. I share your intense desire that something be done, but we are limited by the laws of physics compounded by that element of human nature that forces us to ignore the possibility of a worst case scenario until it's at our doorstep and even then to delay taking action until it's all but too late.

Sometimes the only course of action is to pay the piper and this might well be one of those times. God know, I pray not.