Excuse me?? A tourist, once having heard what was coming, SHOULD HAVE left even BEFORE the evac order - once THAT was issued, there is absolutely no excuse - they had money and means and should have used it. Now they are treated just as everyone else is being treated - rightly so.
There were news reports of tourists who could not get onto a flight out and all the rental cars were taken.
Some tried and didn't make it.
It's a pretty big assumption that all tourists even heard what was coming, let alone got a reasonable explanation of what it meant from locals. Really, Friday evening was when things became pretty apparent that this storm would be a problem. By mid-day Saturday, there were no rental cars and many flights had already been cancelled as airlines worked to get their planes out of harm's way.
But the school busses remained untouched.