I agree. Texas proves that you don't need to militarize the situation. Gaurd troops under governors control and assets loaned to the guard or requersted by the state are sufficient.
Just be cause a corrupt state government in LA was screwed up does not mean we need to screw up the rest of the country.
The only thing texas could have done better was to open the other lanes of the freeway sooner (20 hours sooner), and federalizing the situation would not have helped that.
From what I'm reading, opening the freeway to contraflow much earlier would have made it *harder*, not easier to get people out. The buses running people out early were coming back on the other side, prepositioned supplies were using the other side, the fuel tanker trucks were using the other side.
The only thing I saw that went wrong was that too many people bailed earlier than the plan had allowed for, and Texas didn't have time to get resupply to all the gas stations in the area ahead of the wave of evacuees. There was a backup plan in that case, and it worked well - send tanker trucks out as they became available to resupply vehicles on the road and send out buses to distribute water and pick up the stranded.
Nobody got left behind who wanted to go. Not one soul was left stranded on a freeway.
One thing I haven't seen in the media is how the involvement of National Guard forces in Iraq and Afghanistan has improved their capabilities. All you hear from the yapping left is how they could have helped in these disasters. On the contrary, it's weeded out poor soldiers and officers, and integrated them more into the regular forces. I think the immediate effectiveness of guard forces in NOLA once they were allowed in is due to the fact that the gang thugs didn't want to f**ck with battle hardened troops.