Yup. That's what I was getting at. Move them north and put them in tent cities? Then what about the torrential rains & tornadoes spawned by the hurricane? In this case, we're talking about the total number of displaced persons from just the NO metro area (approx. 1.3 million) amounting to close to 30% of the the population of the entire state of Louisiana. This is one huge freaking mess to which I suspect no 'good solutions' are possible.
"Yup. That's what I was getting at. Move them north and put them in tent cities? Then what about the torrential rains & tornadoes spawned by the hurricane? In this case, we're talking about the total number of displaced persons from just the NO metro area (approx. 1.3 million) amounting to close to 30% of the the population of the entire state of Louisiana. This is one huge freaking mess to which I suspect no 'good solutions' are possible."
1.3 million? Probably three or four times that many. An evacuation of that magnitude would have had to have been started four or five days prior to landfall. You'd have to move the population of half the gulf coast. The possible band of landfall at four or five days out was huge. This storm was 400 miles across. If it's so important to evacuate NO, then it would also be important to evacuate any one who might be affected too.
Oh sure there's lots of 'good solutions'. But they're all in the minds of those who've never organized a church social let alone moving a couple of million people around four or five states.