The sick part is, they didn't make any effort to bus these folks anywhere, save to the "last resort" location at a late hour. If the Superdome was the last resort, where was the first resort?
So what if a lot of them refuse to leave or decide to wait until the last minute. At least there should have been buses available, making the rounds at designated pick up points starting on Friday. For a freak emergency crisis like this, I don't know what problem some people have with such government assistance. Yeah, even for people who are none-too-bright. If they refuse to avail themselves to it, that's one thing. But for leaders to have no plan or to bumble with indecision, that's just immoral. Some people need to be led, that's why leaders should be leading at a time like this. For God's sakes it's people's lives at stake.
How much choice did these citizens have? It is one thing to be "told", to be "informed", and quite another to be left out of the loop. It's an even greater travesty to have been ill-informed, uninformed, and stranded.
WI and IA.