[milagro]

Why didn't they evacuate BEFORE the hurricane?

[dennis1x]

by lake water she means ponchatrain.

this partisan ranting and raving against la/nola officials is getting tiresome and has to provide great laughs for the other side.

maybe this thread can stay on topic.

[SouthernFreebird]

Not everyone has the means to do so. Let's not blame them when you don't know their situation.

[dawn53]

I can understand why some people didn't evacuate. Maybe they didn't have cars. Many people depend on public transportation.

Maybe they didn't have money for gas, many people live paycheck to paycheck.

I heard one woman at the Super Dome say her car broke down as she was leaving town.

Maybe they were old, with no family, or infirmed, etc.

What they should have done, though, and didn't was to get to the Super Dome as instructed. Seems to me that would have saved a lot of search/rescue time, if more people had come to the Super Dome in the first place.

[sinkspur]

I am sorry I campaigned against her twice butshort of her doing a filiabuster and stopping all senate business if we didnt get the necessary funding there wasnt much she vitter jindal or anyone else could do.

Trying to prepare a city for a Category 5 hurricane is somewhat akin to fortifying the DFW Metroplex against an F-5 tornado.

You simply can't prevent widespread disaster in the face of that.

[lizma]

Why didn't they evacuate the Super Dome at 3 am when they knew the city was going to fill??? Round up some school buses and just go?
They could have kept it open for those who came later but it still would have been at least some people out.