Shortsighted plans are no excuse for shortsighted leadership.
#1 The idea that the plan had no provision for a levee-breach contingency is ludicrous.
#2 The idea that NO ONE ELSE (upon reading the plan) was able to make the observation in #1 is profoundly surreal.
I can tell you from someone who lives at the south shore of long island, there is no plan to evacuate long island. its impossible to do. the best plan I have seen is that everyone north of sunrise highway "evacuates in place", and everyone south of it simply "goes north". where they go, I have no idea. for those that don't have friends and family, we have one coliseum that holds maybe 20K people, other parts of the plan say that people should drive to the shopping malls and park in the concrete parking structures and ride it out there in their cars.