Fact: State of La. was told by Homeland Security based on terror drills and disaster study that roughly 100,000 people would NOT leave the city given advanced warning of an impending disaster.
Fact: Nagin had busses go throughout the city offering transportation to those without it prior to the storm hitting.
Fact: Gonzales, La.-Already a group of "refugees" have gone to the local mall and incited a riot.
Fact: Baton Rouge is requesting more police due to the large number of new transplants now on the street.
Fact: No one here knows what logistical difficulties were and are being faced. No one here knows the thought processes, decision processes and circumstances surrounding same, were and are.
Fact: There are far too many posters here who "assume" the rest of us give a s#%*t about how they think they could have done better.
Nonetheless it is important to hear from people with experience, because there have been significant possibilities that have been overlooked or just ignored. With political ramifications.
I am tired of the freepers, personally, with no experience or training, who echo the Blanco-deadhead-line that this was just too overwhelming and there is no way it could have been done differently or better.
Both Howlin and I have been wondering about the director of emergency services, who has been absent from the entire scene since day 1.
Yes it is a huge tragedy, but the mayor and governor have been shown to be hugely incompetent and should take the heat for their lack of action and negligence.
Some of us think we could have made better choices when people were dying. A lot of us think the flooding was more than accurately predicted.
See post number 11 on this thread
I would love to see proof of that. They did not go to any of the hotels and get the stranded tourist who's planes were counceled out.