http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167243,00.html
"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."
"Did you even bother to read the above before you quoted it?"
I believe my point was NO had been given a MANDATORY evacuation order, before Katrina hit. And, my point was, exactly: those folks couldn't just up and leave. Precisely the point. A mandatory evacuation, patients (cancer stricken children if I understand correctly BUT I may have read that wrong in a report about a hostile takeover attempt at the hospital) and prisoners (locked up) were left behind.
Now, at the DOME they are first evacuating "The most vulnerable are going to the Louisiana state capital, Baton Rouge." "Medical evacuations from the Superdome stadium have been disrupted after a gun shot was fired at a rescue helicopter."
Sheesh. Such idiocy.
Those are people who should not have been moved (medically speaking)--and they hoped to ride out the storm. They might have succeeded, had it not been for the gangs of looters. The idiocy is yours to think they were remiss for not leaving when the order went out.