[bamaroots04]

It wasnt a category 5 two days ago. It was a category two, right off the florida coast. Experts predicted fairly confidently that it would grow into a category 4 and hit new orleans, but understandably New Orleanders were not ready to accept that.
To the non-metereologist New Orleander, a category two several hundred miles away doesnt scare you enough to convince you to leave behind your homeland. Im sure they thought that even if it hit NEw Orleans, that it would stay a fairly weak storm and that in such circumstances they would be able to look after their belongings by staying behind and waiting the storm out.

[ReeWalker]

Let me tell you something else..We who live int the "back of beyond" may be poor...BUT WE ARE NOT STUPID!!! We have a weather radio before a TV or anything....WE ain't "city folk"... We know how to take care of our own and survive.....The people you need to worry about are the ones stuck in the cities you DemoRats put them in and kept them there.....