Your post is more terse than accurate. Coast Guard, National Guard and volunteers rescued more than 50,000 people from NOLA after Katrina. The Coast Guard alone rescued 33,545 people following the storm.
Each of these rescues represents people who did not evacuate NOLA. Where's the myth?
They report seeing - yesterday and today - large convoys of various power company vehicles, including huge generators.....and unusual numbers of UPS and FedX trucks.
Help (and mail!) on the way, it looks.
The myth is that “people didn’t evacuate for Katrina”. The truth, by your own account, is that something in the neighborhood of 90% of the parishes south of the lake did just that.
Of course, some people neither evacuated nor needed to be rescued. You are aware of this, right? A material number of people made an intelligent assessment of their situation and decided to remain behind. Some of these self-evacuated after the storm; a great many never left at all and managed to live off the grid for a few weeks without posing an inconvenience or danger to anyone. Of course, government is very, very angry with them and they will have to be punished like the naughty children they are.
I might add that “evacuation” is a phony standard anyway, since in a sane world of free citizens, evacuation would not be the default model for storm response. It’s time to re-visit the unexamined assumption that people need to flee for their lives whenever their masters tell them to be very, very afraid. I can guarantee you in the future it won’t be a case of the authorities yelling “jump!” and us asking, “how high, sir?”
TRT: so glad to see you’re doing fine. I had a feeling you would be.