[hole_n_one]

Joe Scarborough was saying that many gave the reason for not vacating was that, despite wanting to, they didn't have the money to put gas in their cars because Katrina was going to hit just before the end of the month and they had not yet recieved their welfare checks............

Scarborough must have repeated that at least 4 times during his program.

[madison10]

Joe Scarborough was saying that many gave the reason for not vacating was that, despite wanting to, they didn't have the money to put gas in their cars because Katrina was going to hit just before the end of the month and they had not yet received their welfare checks............

This sounds like Scrappleface. That is why buses should have been sent around town picking up residents on Saturday & early Sunday. Maybe I'm wrong, but I got the impression that buses did not help until time to take people to the Super-dome...then it was too late.

[Arizona Carolyn]

Probably true. I reminded my husband tonight while cooking dinner that they would be getting their checks today and his comment was if they had them last weekend they probably could have evacuated.

[BurbankKarl]

An airboat pulls up to the Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans on Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005. Floodwaters continue to rise in the Crescent City after several levees broke, inundating the city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

[NautiNurse]

There has been little news about all the tourists stranded in NOLA. Still haven't forgotten the story Saturday about a foreign tourist who approached a news camera crew setting up for the storm coverage. They were oblivious to the hurricane, asking if the crew was in town filming a movie.