[MizSterious]

"Those waiting to be evacuated are thought to include 10,000 patients, staff and refugees from nine city hospitals, and at least 7,600 prison inmates."

Did you even bother to read the above before you quoted it? Hospital staff was told to remain to help during the hurricane, and in the aftermath. The prison inmates couldn't exactly get up and leave, now, could they?

Sheesh. Such idiocy.

[freema]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,167243,00.html

"Those waiting to be evacuated are thought to include 10,000 PATIENTS, staff and refugees from nine city hospitals, and at least 7,600 prison inmates."
"Did you even bother to read the above before you quoted it?"

I believe my point was NO had been given a MANDATORY evacuation order, before Katrina hit. And, my point was, exactly: those folks couldn't just up and leave. Precisely the point. A mandatory evacuation, patients (cancer stricken children if I understand correctly BUT I may have read that wrong in a report about a hostile takeover attempt at the hospital) and prisoners (locked up) were left behind.

Now, at the DOME they are first evacuating "The most vulnerable are going to the Louisiana state capital, Baton Rouge." "Medical evacuations from the Superdome stadium have been disrupted after a gun shot was fired at a rescue helicopter."

Sheesh. Such idiocy.