80% of the city of New Orleans' 450,000 residents evacuated before Katrina hit. I was in that number making the bumper to bumper twenty hour trip to Birmingham. Made it again a few years ago for Gustav, but that trip took twenty two hours.
Really? I thought it was in the Superdome and in the Walmarts that were being looted.
If the residents had behaved themselves and evacuated when they were told the problems would have been minimal.
The keys to the hundreds of parked school buses were in the parishes hands, to be used if they had any sense at all. And the mayor and the police had very little of either... them being as corrupt as they were/are.
They also watched the tv, trying to second guess landfall from the Weather Service, and really avoid activating well established procedures... until it was too late. This was massive failure of local so called leaders, governor and mayor being principal.
80% of the city of New Orleans' 450,000 residents evacuated before Katrina hit. I was in that number making the bumper to bumper twenty hour trip to Birmingham. Made it again a few years ago for Gustav, but that trip took twenty two hours.