Before any Hurricane Police depts and Municipal Governments offer its citizens rides to shelters. Those in the most vulnerable areas are warned several times by phone and another time by going door to door. I do not know what the procedure is for New Orleans , but they are much more vulnerable there than even Miami Beach, if they do not have this procedure, I would love to know their excuse.
Thank you for the info. I was wondering about this very issue. Couldn't people who had no means have gone to a local police/fire dept or perhaps church? I they said they had no means to get out, I find it hard to believe they would have been turned down. (Yes, I know. Anything is possible. They could have been turned down.)