"Those waiting to be evacuated are thought to include 10,000 patients, staff and refugees from nine city hospitals, and at least 7,600 prison inmates."
What, did these folks just get forgotten in the mandatory evacuation? And those cancer kids at the hospital, too?
Did you even bother to read the above before you quoted it? Hospital staff was told to remain to help during the hurricane, and in the aftermath. The prison inmates couldn't exactly get up and leave, now, could they?
Sheesh. Such idiocy.