[IronMan04]

That's not true. In their emergency plan they TOLD the people to find a ride with a friend or relative. (Note that NO has an avg. of about 14% that use mass transit - so presumably many/most of those people don't have cars.

Thank you for making one of the more rational and honest statements on this thread.

This entire summer the City not only send DVD's to citizens telling them how to evacuate but also bought commercial time to inform the people that the City did not have the resources to evacuate the people and everyone would be on their own.

The people were warned but were left with two options:

Leave their homes and have their homes looted with 100% certainty.

Ride out the storm and protect their belongings.

[geopyg]

Actually I was being sarcastic. Telling people to "find a ride" doesn't seem like much of a plan with such a large number of people using/dependent on mass transit.

On the other hand, along with the school buses we see submerged in the water, their are lots and lots of cars that are shown submerged too. Even if half of them are junkers - it would seem that the evac orders were not heeded.

[Jorge]

" In their emergency plan they TOLD the people to find a ride with a friend or relative. (Note that NO has an avg. of about 14% that use mass transit - so presumably many/most of those people don't have cars."

Thank you for making one of the more rational and honest statements on this thread.

I hardly think telling poor people to find rides with friends or family when such huge number of them rely on public transportation is "rational".
Especially when you leave hundreds of buses parked in lots that are now under water.