And if you, Mr. Mayor, had warned the people in a timely fashion of the pending disaster, and had mobilized the city's resources (like school buses for example) to aid in the evacuation, you'd not have to spend those resources in that manner at this time.
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Mayor C. Ray Nagin called for a voluntary evacuation of the city at 5 p.m. Saturday. He said he would most likely be more forceful about making people leave Sunday. For the tourists stuck in town, he had some different advice.
"The only thing I can say to them is I hope they have a hotel room, and it's a hotel room that's at least on the third floor and up," Nagin said. "Unfortunately, unless they can rent a car to get out of town, which I doubt they can at this point, they're probably in the position of riding the storm out."