HOW is the question do you get 10,000 plus out of a city with water filled streets? Prayers to all involved!
Call the military, tell them you need 100,000 people moved out of N.O., tell them they have a blank check, sit back and watch.
Send several cruise ships to the docks in New Orleans. Load the stranded people on these floating hotels and take them to Baton Rouge or other Gulf Ports. It is possible to do and quick.
that's what I've been asking for awhile. May be akin to the reason we don't have a Civil Defense agency anymore.
During the Cold War, congressional hearings concluded that it was just too difficult to evaccuate an entire city. One high ranking CD official whose name I've forgotten wrote a book titled: "With Enough Shovels" (I kid you not) It suggested that radiation wouldn't penetrate three feet of soil, and if memory serves, even suggested digging a "hidey hole" using a door commandeered from ones house to cover the hole dug, and covered with the requsite amount of soil.Now I'm jusat waiting for the one titled, "With Enough Buckets."
One more time: Government is not our friend. And: "What's everybody's business, is nobody's business.
Gondolas...
Boats?
Every cajuns' got a skiff.