I was thinking the same as you this afternoon when they were interviewing some of the evacuees that are in Houston.
They were wanting to transfer some to cruise ships in Galveston...and they REALLY didn't want to go because they were tired of moving around, were afraid no one in their families would find them if they moved there..and most of all...they didn't want to be on or around WATER..especially the Gulf...
As far as not planned out...we already know that the NOLA part wasn't. We do know that Texas has terrific hurricane evacuation and shelter plans..they are using them now..
The problem is, Howlin...that these plans are for TEXANS, not displaced people for LA...and the further they get shifted away from perhaps the only place they have ever lived....they might just be so terrified..they are likely to do anything.
A fireman walks past an apartment building fire Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, in New Orleans. The apartment building was near the city's famed Magazine Street antique district.
A residential home burns in the Garden District in New Orleans Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005. Fires continue to break out across the flood besieged city that has little running water causing a fierce challenge for the New Orleans Fire Dept.
New Orleans firefighter Mike Seaman takes a break from battling a fire in the lower Garden District of New Orleans, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005. Several fires broke out in the downtown area Tuesday.
A soldier carries a ladder to a house fire in the Garden District in New Orleans, Tuesday Sept. 6, 2005.
The fact is that there a regional emergency plan which includes areas outside the emergency zone, (neighboring cities and states) to take in evacuees. The problem is tha the mayor of New Orleans never acted upon the plan and called on the partner cities and states.