The car rental agencies were closed.
could have gotten a plane before the airport closed,
Flights started getting cancelled on Saturday.
could have gone into the superdome.
The point was for people to be able to get out of the city - not stay there. That's my entire point. There were probably 2,000 school buses in the NO area - get the guard mobilized, confiscate those buses (most are probably ruined now anyway) and get those people ANYWHERE but NO.
This is a once in a century storm, you cant just get thousands of people on a buses, with long lines at gas stations onto already clogged freeways. Its easier said than done.