What's funny is how the media is claiming there was no plan.
Plan? We don't need no stinkin plan!
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A. Evacuation Time Requirements
Using information developed as part of the Southeast Louisiana Hurricane Task Force and other research, the City of New Orleans has established a maximum acceptable hurricane evacuation time standard for a Category 3 storm event of 72 hours. This is based on clearance time or is the time required to clear all vehicles evacuating in response to a hurricane situation from area roadways. Clearance time begins when the first evacuating vehicle enters the road network and ends when the last evacuating vehicle reaches its destination.
Clearance time also includes the time required by evacuees to secure their homes and prepare to leave (mobilization time); the time spent by evacuees traveling along the road network (travel time); and the time spent by evacuees waiting along the road network due to traffic congestion (delay time). Clearance time does not refer to the time a single vehicle spends traveling on the road network. Evacuation notices or orders will be issued during three stages prior to gale force winds making landfall.
> Precautionary Evacuation Notice: 72 hours or less
> Special Needs Evacuation Order: 8-12 hours after Precautionary Evacuation Notice issued
> General Evacuation Notice: 48 hours or less
Unfortunately, the plan was not published in the right lauguage. A translator should have been used to translate the plan into a language that the citizens of New Orleans can understand.
http://www.atlantaga.com/ebonics.htm
tings gonna get bad for dat mayor, I ga-rone-tee!
Maybe if we elected officals who could read, then they would know about this.
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BTT
Who are the morons who decided to build New Orleans in a swamp below sea level?
The French!
It's ALL FRANCE'S FAULT!!! LOL
* Initiate the evacuation.
* Retain overall control of all evacuation procedures via EOC operations.
* Authorize return to evacuated areas.
put a fork in him.
ya did good, ya did good...don't ever let a search result stop you from posting something....
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If not for the electronic format, I'm sure Nagin would have shredded any copies of this document so as not to incriminate himself.
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A. Authority
As established by the City of New Orleans Charter, the government has jurisdiction and responsibility in disaster response. City government shall coordinate its efforts through the Office of Emergency Preparedness
The authority to order the evacuation of residents threatened by an approaching hurricane is conferred to the Governor by Louisiana Statute. The Governor is granted the power to direct and compel the evacuation of all or part of the population from a stricken or threatened area within the State, if he deems this action necessary for the preservation of life or other disaster mitigation, response or recovery. The same power to order an evacuation conferred upon the Governor is also delegated to each political subdivision of the State by Executive Order. This authority empowers the chief elected official of New Orleans, the Mayor of New Orleans, to order the evacuation of the parish residents threatened by an approaching hurricane...."
MSM,take note.
This plan is good, but we need to see the Operating Procedures. That's where the rubber meets the road. It would also be interesting to see if they ever had any exercises or drills.
I heard the NOLA mayor "taking action" and "issuing orders." You folks aren't giving him his due!
(1) He had his chain of communication alive and well by Thursday night last week, even commandeering a late-night open mike on radio station WWL to issue his commands.
(2) He told his White House butler, some lowly named Bush, to "Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."
Now that's taking control! That's assuming authority!
I, for one, think that the NOLA mayor's post-facto Greyhound plan just might have worked.
I think there was only one slight flaw. Greyhound drivers have the actual audacity to ask where they're driving to. And, as of Thursday-Friday of last week, the Astrodome was filling fast and there weren't a whole lot of other sister-city arrangements yet forged by mayoral planners.