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Hi chuknospam, I'm only posting this hear because here is where I am. The information found in the following link comes cirectly from the Whitehouse. Quote: "The President today declared an emergency exists in the State of Louisiana and ordered Federal aid to supplement state and local response efforts in the parishes located in the path of Hurricane Katrina beginning on August 26, 2005, and continuing." Our President was more involved and on the ball than some give him credit for. The Governor of Louisiana may have NOT ordered an evacuation if it hadn't been for the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

Additional info direct from the NOLA Link

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?base/news-18/1125239940201382.xml&storylist=louisiana

Excerpted 8-28-05: NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the face of a catastrophic Hurricane Katrina, a mandatory evacuation was ordered Sunday for New Orleans by Mayor Ray Nagin.

Acknowledging that large numbers of people, many of them stranded tourists, would be unable to leave, the city set up 10 places of last resort for people to go, including the Superdome.

The mayor called the order unprecedented and said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.

Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.

President Bush declares A State of Emergency on 8-26,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050827-1.html

Calls the Mayor and Governor persoanlly on 8-28-05 pleads with the incompetant idiots to evacuate the residents, then has to personally see to it that Federal reliefe is provided because neither the Mayor or Governor is capable of taking care of the people. Just the facts.