Also, and I'm not trying to be argumentative, I think an investigation will reflect that despite the head of the National Weather service begging the mayor to order a mandatory evacuation, he neglected to do so.
The mayor also made no plan to use city or commercial buses to help the poor and those without resources to a safe area.
Had the president not pressured the mayor and governor to order a mandatory evacuation, we'd be looking at untold more dead.
To add to what I said above regarding the Governor neglecting to call in additinal National Guardsmen to help with security, she also had to know what the Chief of Police in New Orleans knew. That 2/3's of his workforce either didn't show up after the hurricane or walked off the job, leaving NO with 500 policemen trying to deal with anarchy.
I will never forget the pictures of the city buses and school buses just flooded in their parking lots...
I suppose DHS, FEMA or Bush were supposed to go get those buses and fill them up before the hurricane got there...
If that had happened...there would have been screaming from all sorts of groups....especially if the hurricane didn't hit NO...
Besides...why have a mayor or Governor if the FEDERAL government is supposed to be responsible for everything?