9:00 Monday morning?! And you were still there? What time did the hurricane come in? There were warnings as early as Saturday. Katrina was a Cat-5 on Saturday. Go back and read the original article that this thread was about: The Director of the National Hurricane Service warned your mayor on Saturday night. On Monday, the mayor says get out now and he was "serious and somber when making the statement". Why didn't he say that earlier? You just made my point: Your mayor is inept.
Since this evacuation was in your eyes a failure could you please point me to an event where a million people were evacuated from one metropolitan area along two roads in less than 48 hours?
I didn't say the evacuation was a failure. I said your local government dropped the ball waiting for the president to make decisions they should have made--such as ordering an evacuation in the first place--and now they're blaming him for the outcome. Your mayor did not give New Orleans citizens 48 hours of notice. And whether he wants to or not, he must accept responsibility for his hesitation. Not to mention the hundreds of school buses that you maintain would have just "complicated matters" that are now sitting in a flooded lot. And the lack of planning for food and water for the people that went to the Superdome and the Convention Center. As I said before, your local officials complaining 48 hours after the fact that it's taking too long to get food and water into a flooded city when no attempt to get supplies into the city before the flooding occurred is reprehensible. The mayor knew people would go there. So did the governor. Why didn't they take steps to get at least some supplies in place? Because they didn't plan ahead. Or they didn't have the money. Either way they are responsible for that.
But, please answer this for me if you will? Did the City of New Orleans' Evacuation Plan include the use of school buses or not? If not, why not? And if so, why weren't they? Your explanation on why they wern't used makes no sense and I think you know that--having to leave your home under these circumstances I know has to have been terrible so I suspect your statement was not well thought out. However, since you seem to be an apologist for Mayor Nagin, perhaps you can answer these questions on his behalf...