[Howlin]

Okay, dawn; I found out what I wanted to know from your map.

All these people that are saying that it's been FOUR DAYS and no help has arrived, listen up:

Hurricane Katrina was STILL in the state of Mississippi at 1.m. Wednesday morning, just moving into Tennessee!

Now, were they suppose to fly/drive into a hurricane to help the people who refused to leave?

[Peach]

Hurricane Katrina was STILL in the state of Mississippi at 1.m. Wednesday morning, just moving into Tennessee!

What a wonderfully great point. Hah!

[Cedar]

"Hurricane Katrina was STILL in the state of Mississippi at 1.m. Wednesday morning, just moving into Tennessee!

Now, were they suppose to fly/drive into a hurricane to help the people who refused to leave?"

Hey, I think you should get a prize for that! Great point!

[Wild Irish Rogue]

" All these people that are saying that it's been FOUR DAYS and no help has arrived, listen up:

IIRC- Scarborough said tonight, that it's been Five days ...

[Ovation_girl]

I agree on the time factor...However local emergency officials, whose job it is to know all there is to know about preparing for hurricanes and floods, should have known from study of prior hurricanes, that even in a mandatory evacuation, a good portion of people do not leave, especially the poor and the elderly, as well as those who own small businesses and stay to protect them. Given that, they would have known that more would need the shelter of last resort and even more would need to be rescued if a worse case scenario occurred. But they didn't ask for help, or at the very least they asked for very little help. The intial number of troops ordered in were 2,000(per a FOX interview), not enough for this type of operation.

Another excuse being offered by local officials is the lack of communication tools such as phones available. Once again a good emergency operations plan includes contingency plans for this. Obviously we now know that theirs was not a good one...

[nwctwx]

Hurricane Katrina was STILL in the state of Mississippi at 1.m. Wednesday morning, just moving into Tennessee! Katrina exited MS just after 4am on Tuesday... about 23 hours after landfall in LA. She passed by here (NY) mid day Wed.