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The Mayor had enough time to call in city employees (or even ask for volunteers) to grab the school and greyhound buses and dispatch them throughout the city to pick up people who wanted to leave before Katrina and had no other means of transport.

The police could have been knocking on doors telling people where the nearest buses were and, if necessary, offering to take them to the location.

This should have been a part of the evacuation plan. The plan as written was vague, failing to identify locations where buses would go, failing to identify shelters in Louisiana which would could take people from the buses, failing to identify who would drive the buses, etc.

Every major city needs such a detailed plan.

One of my main beefs with Homeland Security is they failed to notice that the New Orleans plan was stupid and the Mayor and Governor were grossly incompetent so they needed their hands held.

Have we learned anything from this?

How many other cities have unworkable plans in the event of a terrorist attack or natural disaster.

Who is reviewing these plans?

The solution is not to hire more Witless consultants and contractors but for people to read the current plans in their communities and demand they be made usable and coherent.

Homeland Security should also be reviewing these plans and giving suggestions to the locals on how to make them better.

I hope every Freeper now understands, if they didn't "get it" during the Y2K scare, that they need to be self-sufficient during a crisis.

That includes trying to live in areas with neighbors who "get it" as well as stockpiling the necessities.

Anyone who believes the government will save them in time is looking at a fool in the mirror.

Demand the best from your public officials but be prepared for the worst.