How many times during a typical hurricane season does a potentially dangerous storm come into the gulf? And, how accurate are typical landfall forecasts 72 hours before the fact? How many times a year would New Orleans be evacuated if this 72 hour plan were strictly enforced? Does anyone know?
They've actually gotten very accurate with their forecasts. They expected a northward turn to this hurricane and I sweated in Panama City, hoping it would wait. It did wait and that waiting put NO in the kill zone Friday night with a forecast for strengthening to a strong Cat 5.
The way I do the math, Friday night is more than 50 hours before landfall. That time could have been used to better advantage. All that night, I read post after post screaming at the mayor and governor to DO SOMETHING. They finally did, when Bush called them.
It's not my plan, it's not the fed's plan. It's the plan put together by the New Orlean victims of previous hurricanes. You tell me how many Cat 5 hurricanes, not "potentially dangerous storms", have headed straight at NO. They knew Friday it was going affect NO.