Why didn't he have schools buses prowling the neighborhoods evacuating people with no cars?
Why didn't he drop leaflets around the city with directions to shelters?
I'll tell you why: Because between his and the governor's incompetence, they put off making a mandatory evacuation untillthe President called and told them to. By that time they knew it was too late for everyone to evacuate, so while they told people to leave, only those who could get out without assistance would get on the roads. If they had done what you suggest, the roads would have been even more clogged than they were, and all the people they had picked up and put on buses would have been stranded on highways when the storm came in.
They know their city is full of people (mostly black people) who did not have the means to leave on their own. They rolled the dice and they lost big time.
And here I thought it was conservative republicans who didn't care about poor African Americans.
As much as I hate to defend this incompetent jerk, I can't let your questions slide by without critical comment. You can't have school buses prowing the neighborhoods when the nieghboorhoods are under 4 to 10 feet of water or more and road conditions prohibit drivers from getting to the buses and then getting the buses out on the streets. I assume you mean dropping leaflets around the city before the storm hit because dropping them when the city is under water is a waste of resources.
You and many other people are forgetting the NOLA survived Katrina relatively well, with only minor to moderate damage and some flooding that was being processed as usual by the levy/pump system. The levies broke at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, 12 hours after Katrina had cleared the area. I suspect that many people may have already left the shelters and gone back home. By the time theyt realize what had happened they were trapped.