I posted on another thread (with tin foil hat on) that maybe they were afraid if these really poor people were bussed out of the city, they might never come back - and for whatever reasons - political and/or financial they didn't want to do this.
A Cat 5 hurricane is headed your way and you live in a bowl shaped city below sea level. You choose NOT to implement your evacuation plan. When else would you ever use it if not for that time? Something is going on. I just don't know what.
TX Bluebonnet, you make a very good point. You might have hit the Mother Lode with that one. Indeed, many of these people who made it to other places, and are getting help, now have the option TO NOT RETURN TO NEW ORLEANS, and from reports a lot of them are deciding to stay away. And these are the very people who keep the Dems in power in that area and in the state as well.
I've been thinking aloud the same thing.