No, you can't force every idiot. But while they got the contraflow system working on the highways since the last storm, they made no effort to get the willing ones among the 100,000 non-car types out. A quicker evacuation decision combined with buses (and trains on Saturday) could have reduced most of those staying to the usual idiots. On Brendan Loy's site, there was a link to another blogger who's mother-in-law was at a nursing home in Metaire. By the time, they issued the mandatory order, it was too late to get the nursing home patients out. The nursing home director admitted that he made the wrong decision on Saturday and that the lack of an evacuation order influenced him.
8:04 P.M. - Mayor Nagin: Unhappy that the helicopters slated to drop 3,000-pound bags into the levee never showed up to stop the flow of water. Too many chiefs calling shots he says.
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