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About 20 years ago, I lived in a rural area of Kentucky. We had a train derail and a chemical fire started which burned for a few days. With very little resources and almost no planning, a county of 35,000 people evacuated in approximately 7 hours. That includes the hospitals and rest homes. Of course, we had a nasty, white fog hanging around our ankles that burned our skin, but it proves a point. Nobody liked our fire chief, yet he was able to mobilize all of our local school buses to evacuate our hospitals and rest homes. Most of us used a primitive method of communication called Citizen Band radios, (kind of like smoke signals), and we all left. Nobody stayed behind. The white fog burned our skin, so we all stayed at motels out of town for about 3 or 4 days. When the train car burned out, we came home. Of course, the authorities said the chemical was not deadly, but tell that to the dead cows, horses and birds that didn't make it on the buses.

I'm rambling, but my point is simple. They could have evacuated those people if they wanted to. They didn't want to. This is deliberate. I've said that all along.

FReegards,
DocRock

They could have evacuated those people if they wanted to. They didn't want to.

You can't evacuate a city of 1.4 million when .4 million don't want to be evacuated. The people in this article weren't going and I don't blame them.

"my point is simple. They could have evacuated those people if they wanted to. They didn't want to. This is deliberate. I've said that all along"

Thanks for that revealing story -- we've got to get that and any other mass-evac stories we can into the MSM. YES, they could have evacuated tens of thousands quickly, but they did not do it. The Mayor and Governor acted as though nothing was possible, when in fact they lacked the will and/or common sense to do what was obvious: commandeer every bus in NOLA and within a couple of hours' drive (as the Governor finally DID do by emergency order on Wednesday, several days AFTER the need arose) and mass evac everyone who did not have private transportation. Of course, many shelters had to be set up for receiving so many people elsewhere, but as we have seen that had to be done in the end anyway.... the Mayor and Governor simply lacked the will to do it before disaster hit.