[Knitting A Conundrum]

I don't care what Fox was showing you. ALL
of the outbound ways were out only the day before the storm, until late afternoon. They should have started it the morning of the day before, but until then, they didn't believe the storm was hitting.

New Orleans has the Causeway, I-10, across the River and airline highway to evacuate the city. They had it planned pretty well. If they had put it into effect 24 hours earlier, it might have saved more lives. If they had announced mandantory evacuation a day earlier, it would have helped.

If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

And hindsight is perfect.

They only went into high gear the day before the storm. part of the reason chaos reigns today.

[Erik Latranyi]

OK. That's not the way it looked, but I will take your word for it.

[bvw]

They also had rail lines -- the impoverished and poor, the car-less -- could have been rapidly moved out on boxcars, gondolas, even flat cars. That is what would have been done had awareness of the size of the storm been known in say 1910. Today? There would have a foolish insistence on having (1) passenger cars (2) prepared terminals and camps of facilities where to take the refugees.

But just getting the people out of the storm area, of itself alone, should have been paramount.