Check out evacuation instructions from NOLA website

City of New Orleans Website ^ | Aug 05

[Let's Roll]

Someone needs to capture this website before they take it down.

Don't know how to do that or I would.

Thanks.

[mewzilla]

Look at the rest of this NOLA link, guys. From this portion:

Identify in advance an adequate storage location at minimum safe distance. - Learn alternate evacuation routes and utilize them early to avoid dangerous conditions, congestion and denied access to certain highways. - Maintain and inspect vehicles regularly to ensure safe and reliable operation. - Equip vehicles with serviceable emergency items such as spare tires, jacks, lug wrenches, lighting, flares, tie- downs, extra fuel, necessary tools, etc. - Remember! Property considerations are secondar to the health and safety of human lives.

Why the heck wasn't this done?

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"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:"

Autonomy of states and cities from federal control is good, but if local governments are going to point the finger at the federal government when bad things happen, then they should be required to submit disaster plans for approval and oversight.

Louisiana has been a notoriously rogue Democratic state for decades, and has now proved to the world that the "Big Easy" party image of New Orleans is an accurate portrayal of how cavalier the local government has been in preparing for what everyone has acknowledged was just a matter of time in coming.

I wonder if anyone from the federal government has any idea what plans are in place for the massive urban sprawls that have been erected up and down the earthquake faults in California, or it when that happens its going to be treated like "Who knew this could happen here!?" too.

[nicmarlo]

the lettuce is here.

[RobbyS]

This is the kind of plan that a high school principal provides for a fire drill. Can you imagine!

[Borax Queen]

the turnip truck has arrived!

[eggman]

The water rose so fast, there was little time to make a logical plan of escape.

The plans should have been in place for decades. The city knew the levees were designed to withstand only a cat 3 hurricane. What happened to the city's disaster plan? What happened to each family having their own plan? They knew the threat was there yet the proper actions were not taken by the families that chose to stay, by the city that failed to evacuate those that could not get out themselves, and by the state that failed to coordinate and supervise the execution of the plans.

The plans were inadequate and the execution was hampered by inept leadership. Who does the media want to blame?

[birddog]

Great find - bookmark for later

[Peach]

So they DID address those people who couldn't drive. By not having a plan. How typical.

[nicmarlo]

lol! : )

[R. Scott]

Everyone should own a car – but never use it. It is for emergency use only. < /sarcasm>

[AntiGuv]

Stay calm.

Always a good first step. It's too bad a lot of people stopped paying attention right about there..

[Fog Nozzle]

Hundreds of buses need hundreds of drivers. Where do you suppose they were?

[Calpernia]

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


And yet, from here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475637/posts
Ivan exposes flaws in N.O.'s disaster plans (September 19, 2004)

>>>>"If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature," said Joe Cook of the New Orleans ACLU.<<<<


Then, look at Doug's thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1475676/posts

>>>AP photo showing New Orleans buses partially submerged. Apparently they were not used to evacuate those without cars.<<<<

[eggman]

The authority to make the final decisions related to an evacuation rests with the Mayor of New Orleans.

With the authority comes the responsibility. Good find.

[syriacus]

The New Orleans officials should have written housing codes that mandated inflatable life boats.

They've known for several years that the hurricane cycle was on a dangerous upswing.
Dan Rather could have been a hero instead of a laughingstock, if he had investigated the dangers to New Orleans instead of Bush's military record.

The whole MSM should be ashamed of themselves for having focused on bashing Bush since 2000.

[BunnySlippers]

You made me go back and look. Someone said that NO did not provide any mass transit out of the city ... seems like it can't be true. But the photo, as you point out, tells the story.

[Bob]

See the picture in post #2. That's a whole bunch of unutilized public transportation capacity. It seems to me that competent local leadership could have figured out some way to use it.