[NautiNurse]

I heard Nagin's "suggestion" two days before the storm to "take a train anywhere, go north." Came a tad late because the Amtrak train had already left the station with 900 empty seats. I don't buy the evac plan was successful with all the drowned buses. Residents could have been picked up at their neighborhood bus stops.

It's one helluva lot easier to evac people before the city is flooded, rather than waiting for choppers to cherry pick people off their roofs.

[bayourant]

I guess the point is I am trying to make is that relocating about 1 million people in 48 hours is no easy task at all. Local officials are right when they say this was the most successful evac ever. I evaced during hurricane George and it was chaos. Also the State plan worked well to a large degree. Its just not Nagin but various Parish Presidents that have to evacuate their Parishes in a certain order that NOLA had to deal with. I It appears that alot more people got out of NOLA than previously thought. If anyone told me a year ago that you could evac 80 percent of the city while at the same time getting everyone out of the area in the other parishes in 48 hours I would have laughed my head off. As to Blanco? Well I highly suspect that if this happened under the previous Gov (Rep Mike Foster) the same thing would have happened if not worse.