[LA Woman3]

72 hours of pleading and begging people to get the hell out is not enough warning??? Should they have started in June?


72 hours was the ideal time frame. The New Orleans officials didn't make a definite decision until time was running out. They didn't give the people 72 hours to evacuate!!

[Texasforever]

72 hours was the ideal time frame. The New Orleans officials didn't make a definite decision until time was running out. They didn't give the people 72 hours to evacuate!!

Oh baloney. Look I have never seen officials and weather experts so damn scared in my life and I have lived in the gulf coast for many years. There is ABSOLUTLY no argument to be made that people did not have timely and forceful warnings.

[JediForce]

To be fair...they only had 48 hours tops. Still...like the President said this morning...the response was unacceptable. Look...they blew it at the local level as well as the state level. The feds are the last line in cases like this and it takes time to get things moving.

At the first sign of looting...the looters should have been shot and killed. Word spreads...looting stops...supplies get in faster...more are rescued. Liberals don't like shoot to kill. But I will lay of the politics for now. Unlike some on the other side...I believe this is NOT the time for politics.

God help those people...they are our people...Americans.

JEDI.