Early this morning, I believe it was FOXNews I heard report New Orleans was under mandatory evacuation, but soon after that, I flipped to The Weather channel, and their anchor said the Mayor was about to announce a mandatory evacuation.
When the big blow is over, when the blame game starts, the Mayor will blame all problems on anyone and everyone but himself and his administration.
I heard yesterday that he was called by the Director (I believe it was) of the National Weather Service to really explain how serious the situation was and that they thought he should start evacuations of NO. Later in the evening I heard him asked about that by WWL he danced all around it and finally said he would make the decision about mandatory evacuations early in the morning. He couldn't have been warned any better than that.
thank you for adding this:
"I heard yesterday that he (New Orleans mayor), was called by the Director (I believe it was) of the National Weather Service to really explain how serious the situation was and that they thought he should start evacuations of NO. Later in the evening I heard him asked about that by WWL he danced all around it and finally said he would make the decision about mandatory evacuations early in the morning. He couldn't have been warned any better than that."