That's what I was thinking, get the Air Force to bring in a fleet of C5-As and get people out of there.
Exactly - there is time for C5's for evacuation - who could arrange this the Gov?
"Is this the end of the world?
Another storm for the media to hype."
For some reason I remembered this bit of cynicism from bluebeak just four days ago. Shows how silly you can look when you just spout off without bothering to use your brain any.
Wind is too strong for C5-A's or -Bs to get in and out.
That said, with NO being a major commerce center, why isn't everyone remaining being loaded on buses, taken to the nearest train terminal, loaded on the next train and hauled out? The trains don't have to stop for road crossings and I'd bet the rail system isn't real busy right now.
As the Indians and Pakistanis have demonstrated, you can load thousands of people on a train - even ones that are only boxcars and flatbeds.