Some tourists were trapped, legit.
Um what about their ignoring the mandatory Evac order? but I guess most members in the Dinasour Media find it easier to blame the Feds rathr then hold the tourists THEIR stupidty in staying when they were told to leave.
They didn't ignore the order. Most of them were scheduled to leave well in advance, but the airport - unlike everything else - closed a day early and all their flights were cancelled. Also, the buses you keep reading about were not paid for by the hotels, but by the tourists themselves, and were then commandeered by FEMA before the tourists could get on them to escape.
They couldn't get out, you moron.
As this debate roars over what the tourists should have done, add to the fire the information that the hotels were exempted from the mandatory evacuation order by the city government. I don't know what the hotels said to their guests, but I would suspect that many of them told their guests to stay as long as possible in the absence of a clear rescue plan.