Assuming that the 20% who didn't leave had been evacuated by the city of NO, I wonder where they would have been taken? Was there a 'plan' for this? 20% of 400,000 is 80,000 people. Or, if you figure the population of the NO metro area--1.3 million--20% of that is 260,000 people which is approximately the population of the city of Baton Rouge. And was there resistance in BR (and elsewhere) about accepting the bottom tier of the NO population?
I suspect that there are a lot of very interesting chapters left in this story.
Well, people here in Tennessee and in Texas and other states have been taking them in from Louisiana. A lot of churches here are set up to take in refugees and the residents here are bringing supplies to these shelters by the truckloads.
"Assuming that the 20% who didn't leave had been evacuated by the city of NO, I wonder where they would have been taken?"
Very good point. Just where would one put 80,000 to 250,000 people? Sure, we've done it after the hurricane after a massive deployment of resources. But before the hurricane, before the flooding, before all the scenes of destruction, just where the heck would you have put all these people? Who would have paid for it before all this happened?
People need to think this stuff through to the end. We have half a dozen hurricanes hit each year. Do we seriously propose moving all the potentially affected people out of the potentially affected areas each and every time? Really?