She flat out said she received no warning about the hurricane (which is a lie), and they dilly-dallied about evacuation until Sunday or Monday.
See Diddle E. Sqat's thread on how "well" they are doing.
Here ya go:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1472323/posts?page=2374#2374
For future reference, this repeated line by the mayor and governor that "We went to bed Friday night being told it was a Florida storm, and woke up Saturday to find us threatened" to excuse why they waited so long to start the evacuation plan is total bullshit. (excuse my French)
Friday 4pm NO time report from the NWS, warns of a significant shift west, Mississippi landfall (88.5 on the grid, NO is 90), and possible more movement expected (post #388):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=388#388 By at least Friday 6pm computer models were converging on LA (post #478):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=478#478 Turns out those computer models had been run at 2pm (post #526):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=526#526 In fact some computer models run at 7am NO time Friday had predicted a NO hit(post #224):
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=224#224 So unless the gov and mayor went to bed Friday afternoon, they knew then that it likely was headed their way.
But wait, lookee here, Blanco declares a state of emergency about 8pm Friday night. Why do that if they were told it was going to be a Florida hurricane? (post #585)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1471043/posts?page=585#585
Here's my major criticism with her:
1) We all have known for years how bad a direct hit would be, and that it would take 48-72 hours to evac. Why did she not issue or demand that the mayor issue a mandatory evac at the noon Saturday news conference, when there was only 48 hours left? Why did it take Max Mayfield at the NHC frantically calling them both on Saturday night demanding a stepped up evac, and why 12 hours to react to that(and reportedly not until after President Bush had to step in and tell them to?) Why was there not a mandatory shutdown of non-essential businesses on Saturday, or at least on Sunday, so employees who might have feared losing their jobs could be free to evac, and to send a strong message of how serious this was? The number one job of a governor is to protect her citizens' general welfare, and this became a complete failure of leadership.
I'll withhold comment on her actions since it hit, other than to utter disgust and refute her blame game lies.