Check out evacuation instructions from NOLA website

City of New Orleans Website ^ | Aug 05

[texas_mrs]

General Evacuation Guidelines

General evacuation for disasters apply to both natural (hurricane, flood, thunderstorm, tornado) and man-made (chemical and fire). If you are told to EVACUATE you should move to a place designated by public officials.

Follow these steps:

Stay calm.

Take your disaster supply kit.

Remember as you leave your house to do the following:

- Turn off lights, household gas appliances, heating, air conditioning, and ventilation systems.

- Leave refrigerator/freezer on.

- Lock house.

Only use the phone in case of an emergency, injury, or illness. If you must use the phone, keep calls brief. Do not listen to rumors. Turn on your radio or television for up-to-date information from public officials during an emergency.

Use only one vehicle for your family. If you have room, assist any neighbors that may need a ride.

Tune to Emergency Alerting System 870 AM or 101.9 FM radio stations for reports about evacuation routes, conditions, etc. Use those travel routes specified. Drive safely. Traffic will be heavy. Law enforcement officials along the route will help with traffic.

If you need a ride, try to go with a neighbor, friend, or relative.

Let others know when you leave and where you are going.

Make arrangements for pets. Animals are not allowed in public shelters. Pet carriers are recommended along with pet supplies.

[texas_mrs]

I don't see any mention of public transportation or bussing being supplied by the city here..........

[Tatze]

Good find. Of course, this is Bush's fault too. But with evacuation procedures like that, it's no surprise to see pictures like this:

[atomicpossum]

I guess some folks didn't get the memo.

Some people have trusted their lives to the government. Why wouldn't they leave it to them in a crisis, too?

[BigBobber]

As Rush said the other day. If the libs can get all these guys to polls in one day, why didn't they mobilize to get them out of town?

[tfecw]

"If you need a ride, try to go with a neighbor, friend, or relative. "


This is the part that sort of gets me. We constantly hear about the people without cars who rely on public transportation. Before the storm hit you have every lane in every highway filled with cars leaving the city. Why not get a ride? Have them drop you off pretty much anyplace out of the evacuation zone. Maybe I'm being a tad idealistic (I do that from time to time) but I personally would have a hard time turning down someone who was asking for a ride, assuming i had room.
Just drop them off at pretty much any church or homeless shelter or red cross center, etc.

[gracie1]

A transistor radio, flashlights and plenty of batteries is essential. On one of the talking head shows, it was said that because of power outages, if you did not have a radio you could not have been aware of the levee failures until your house became inundated. The water rose so fast, there was little time to make a logical plan of escape.

[rllngrk33]

It looks like those buses can still be used. I'll bet they could be started up with little or no problem.

What's happened is a complete lack of leadership and initiative at the local level.

[najida]

Is this a joke!?!

Please, PLEASE tell me this is a joke!

Even my little city has a way better plan than this...
A
C
K!

[najida]

What about SCHOOL buses!
The transit buses,
all the State, Railroad vehicles, ambulances etc...
Even the DOA trucks, fercryinoutloud!

Don't get me started.

ACK!

Just Damn

[BigBobber]

We constantly hear about the people without cars who rely on public transportation.

You raise a great point. The libs tell us to get out of our cars and use public transit. Yet in this crisis public transit appeared to be totally inadequate to evacuate the city.

[tfecw]

I agree with ya :)

In a round about way i was basically trying to say "If you wanted to get out of NO, it could have easily been done"

[TASMANIANRED]

Incompetence and lack of leadership at the local level.

Failure from the beginning from the police to execute a command and control policy.

Failure of the Gov to order up the national guard.

Liberal cleptocracy in action.

[null and void]

One picture worth a thousand words...

[Peach]

Well lookie here. The City of New Orleans DID have a plan. It was every man for himself.

This is SHOCKINGLY inadequate. A third grader could provide for a better plan. Do NOT lose this.

Backho - this MUST be added to the list of archived articles for Katrina. And thank you again for all your work on these archives.

[najida]

I evaced with a Nursing Home on school buses...it wasn't fun, but there were lots of them.

I mean, ACK!

[Admin Moderator]

Why was this posted to Activism?

[gracie1]

Yeah, that whole thing got me too. People have become so conditioned to expecting the authorities to do all of the thinking and planning, no wants to think or plan for themselves. What ever happened to pooling your resources, making an assessment of needs and strengths in your neighborhood/apartment block/whatever.

Who has cash for gas money and supplies?

Who has cars and how many can each one hold?

Who are the sick, elderly, and disabled that need extra consideration?

Supply each vehicle with needed supplies and pack it with people to evacuate out.

That being said, the city still has no excuse for not realizing that there would be some people who still would need assistance. That those school buses weren't deployed to evacuate people is inexcusable.

[MizSterious]

Because, silly, most of those votes didn't need to be evacuated from the city--they were already dead. (And voting early and often!)

[backhoe]

Thanks for calling it to my attention- I'll add it.

[WideGlide]

Take your disaster supply kit.

Contents:

Shopping cart for looted booty

Flak vest

Cigarettes

Couple 40's

Glock and 20 magazines

"Help Me" sign for when you run out of the above