"The plan for the New Orleans officials was "pray the storm misses us like Ivan."
Yes, they were given an opportunity to evaluate their evacuation plan because there were many problems with that evacuation. The were too stupid to study what needed to be worked on and make the adjustments that was necessary.
IVAN and Nagan:
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Ivan Nears New Orleans
16/09/2004 04:06
By Russell McCulley
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2004/09/16/world/ivannearsneworleans.html?page=2
’VERTICAL EVACUATION’
Mayor Ray Nagin said the evacuation was going well but noted at least 100,000 of greater New Orleans’ 1.5 million people relied on public transit and had no means to leave. He advised a "vertical evacuation" for those left behind, telling them to move to the higher floors of tall buildings to avoid floodwaters that could rise up to 18 feet (5.5 metres).
CUT CUT
"We will have people in the city who will ride the storm out," he said on NBC’s "Today" show. "We are very concerned about the flooding which could basically mimic what happened in 1965 with Hurricane Betsy."
Forecasters countered Nagin’s advice with a caution that a hurricane’s winds increase the higher people go. At the top of a 30-story building, the winds could be 20 to 25 mph (32 to 40 kph) higher than at ground level.
Well said.
And what a sad 'truth' it is.
People died.