Maybe if the people in New Orleans were not dirt poor they would have the means to be able to heed the warnings and evacuate the city.
Associated Press New Orleans school buses, which many say should have been used to ferry out residents, didn't move from the parking lots
City had evacuation plan but strayed from strategy***....City officials had 550 municipal buses and hundreds of additional school buses at their disposal but made no plans to use them to get people out of New Orleans before the storm, said Chester Wilmot, a civil engineering professor at Louisiana State University and an expert in transportation planning, who helped the city put together its evacuation plan. ...***
The "do not own cars" is a crock. Just look at the pictures of the inundated neighborhoods. There are hundreds of inundated cars, all parked on the streets or in parking lots, pretty well showing they were mostly functional. They weren't used to evacuate their owners because those owners didn't want to leave and got caught. At some point people need to take responsibility for their own welfare.
The remark about public transportation is just as much of a crock. All anybody needs to do is look at the pictures of Lake Nagin and realize that the NO mayor didn't use approximately 600 municipal and school buses that were available to him for the evacuation.
I'm an alum of the University of Illinois ('65 undergrad and '67 law). Garbage like this and the law shcool giving the Witch an honorary doctorate a few years ago are reasons why I don't contribute to them.