[Trust but Verify]

Yep, that's exactly what happened. They didn't plan on having to take care of the people in the SD for more than 24 hours. When it became apparent it was impossible for people to go back home, there was no back-up plan. I would dearly love to know what the actual evacuation handbook says and how closely it was followed.

Either the plan was horribly flawed or it was not followed by local and state officials.

[AnAmericanMother]

I would dearly love to know what the actual evacuation handbook says. . .

Book? What book?

I would bet you a dollar to a donut that (a) there is no book; or (b) nobody has any idea where the one lone typescript copy is.

The city's "plan" bears every earmark of something done on the fly and by the seat of the pants.

You know, the Feds are supposed to provide funding and materiel in support of local government, not do the job that local government was SUPPOSED to do . . .

[Cboldt]

http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/plans/EOPSupplement1a.pdf <- Evacuation and Sheltering Plan