Hard to know the exact number at this stage. Thanks to the President twisting arms to get the mandatory evacuation, maybe half to two-thirds of the Gulf Coast area's population got out ahead of the storm.
Of those that remained, the Coast Guard alone has rescued thousands. The Navy, National Guard and other search-and-rescue teams have rescued thousands more.
Somewhere around 50,000 were pulled out of the Superdome and Convention Center complexes in New Orleans.
Today they are do a grid search in NO, and probably elsewhere in the region. There are people who still refuse to leave, but Chertoff says everyone must leave NO.
While the MSM, Dims and race hustlers have been busy with their disgusting blame game and whining, we have just witnessed the greatest, fastest search-and-rescue operation in history.
BUMP!
By numbers alone it now rivals the Dunkirk Evacuation where the British evacuated about 400,000 British and French across the English Channel as the German Panzer Divisions were advancing. During the week the US coast guard alone was rescuing 100 per hour. We probably will not even be able to calculate the total number of rescues including those by private citizens and businesses. I think a web site were all rescuers could post their stories and also list the numbers they rescued would be interesting.