[FreedomCalls]

He lives in New Orleans and said that one nightmare scenario people had worried about is if they had thousands of people on busses headed out of town, stuck in traffic, and then hit by the hurricane

Which is why the disaster plan calls for the evacuation order to be issued 72 hours in advance, not 24 like Nagin and Blanco did.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Louisiana legal system is based on French law. That's why, when the hurricane hit, the governor and the mayor knew how to surrender. The problem was, no Germans showed up to give them orders.