[lugsoul]

You are purposefully avoiding the issue, for obvious reasons of political slant - which, IMHO, is misplaced at the moment.

I wasn't saying there shouldn't be a plan - I am saying that expecting that plan to be managed and executed on a municipal level is lunacy.

Your own response proves the point, when your reply relies on a comparison with an evacuation conducted by an authoritarian government - which, BTW, evacuated fewer persons than actually did evac in NOLA.

And surely you don't believe that the local governments of Talim and Haitang performed that effort, with their own resources.

Why should you give an example? Because it is you who is opining that the NOLA municipal government should have executed a feat that has never been done before, that's why.

[Sisku Hanne]

it is you who is opining that the NOLA municipal government should have executed a feat that has never been done before, that's why.
Excuse me??! Baloney. My point was and is they should have made the most rudimentary attempt to implement SOME of their evac plan...any of it, for crying out loud! I never once implied that they were responsible for handling the crisis in totality and doing it perfectly. I absolutely DO expect the municipal level government to carry their own water in a crisis.
I'm done here. Have the last word on me.