On their own. It was Bush that told the state to oder a mandatory evac. Left to their own devices, they wouldn't have done it. It was the American people, the ones in charge of their own lives, who jumped in their cars and got out. All the state did was make sure both East and West I-1O were both running westbound. The people he had to evac-- folks in nursing homes, jails and the carless in projects-- that he forgot about. He and Blanco blew it.