It wasn't an evacuation, but I recall during the NYC blackout 2 summers ago that a lot of people were worried that there might be looting after dark. We made our way out of the city on our own. We walked down 40 flights of stairs, office workers helping each other and helping to get the handicapped get out. I remember walking for a couple of hours from 48th and 6th all the way down to Wall Street to catch a ferry. On last minute notice the city provided buses and ferries and people were carpooling and giving one another rides and picking up weary walkers and helping them on to delivery trucks. People and officials in N.O. should have pulled together before the storm.