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Actually no, based upon the hurricane strength and direction though we can make reasonable decisions. In the case of NO, officials knew the city couldn't take a hit or near hit from a large moving Cat 4, 5. I've read in a few places where they thought they couldn't even handle a 3 because of the deterioration of the levees and the city sinking over the past 40 years.

Now, if you had that prior knowledge and were the Mayor or Governor or President of a Southeast Parish...what would you do?

Addendum: Their plans called for total evacuation using the buses both public and private, collection points within each parish and a No Refusal Order to shelters further inland to accept evacuees.

"Actually no, based upon the hurricane strength and direction though we can make reasonable decisions. In the case of NO, officials knew the city couldn't take a hit or near hit from a large moving Cat 4, 5."

No one can take a hit from a cat 4 or 5. Now exactly where was Katrina three or four days prior to landfall? Now just how big was the possible area that it might hit remembering that it was four hundred miles across? Now, just how many people live in that area?

"Now, if you had that prior knowledge and were the Mayor or Governor or President of a Southeast Parish...what would you do?"

What would you do, move three or four million people? And, just exactly how would you do that? Where would you house them after you moved them? How would you feed them?