---I mean, honestly, if they had the hurricane (cat. 4-5) coming near them, and the levees could only sustain a cat. 4, couldn't they have inspected the levees, and tried to find out what they could do to prevent the break before it happened, and to see if there was enough time to emergency evac the people at the shelters? Also, why didn't the shelters have enough food stockpiled to handle several days without food anyways? I believe in my honest opinion that every single state and local official in New Orleans and Louisiana should be charged with negligent genocide.---
Because the real plan was:
Let the people fend for themselves.
Put hands out for money.
That's their plan. That's what they do. Unfortunately this time the levee actually broke.
Let's be clear with the correct terminology here. According to their own disaster plan, the word "shelter" was a facility out of the flood area that was stocked with food and water. They never made it that far.
Instead, the inhabitants of New Orleans were forced to stand in line for hours at a facility that was supposed to be used as a "staging area" to bus them out to the "shelters."
Once the evacuation routes became impassable, then and only then would the "staging area" (the Superdome) become a "refuge of last resort."
All the satellite photos of the flooded buses tell the story. They didn't follow their own plan.