Not finding any. Got stuff on people whose cars died, and where cows got stranded, but nothing about folks dieing.
Need a reference on that.
That’s pretty astonishing as over 100 people died. Now it was said at the time that considering there were over a million people on the freeways, that wasn’t unusual. That may be true. Certainly the 26 elderly people on the bus from Brighton Gardens that exploded died as a direct result of the evacuation. Regardless of how many actually died it was a brutal, awful situation and I’m glad I didn’t try it. Everybody can’t get out in a situation like that and the young and strong need to let the sick and helpless get out first.
Besides, I wasn’t in the evac zone... but a heck of a lot of people not from the evac zone tried to get out too.
You’re not exactly wrong, but it’s not as simple as you make it out to be.
Ineffective government oversight of bus companies contributed to the explosion that killed 23 frail nursing home residents escaping from Hurricane Rita, federal safety officials said Wednesday.
In all fairness, these folks were from Houston, not New Orleans, and evacuated because of Hurricane Rita.
Until I looked it up, I took it on good faith that these folks died in the Katrina evacuation. The Rita evacuation, emptying Houston, was probably twice the size of the Katrina evacuation, at around 3 million folks.
So, some folks died rushing from Katrina, but not many. More folks died fleeing Rita, just 3 weeks later. A few auto accidents, a few heart attacks, and the bus fire near Dallas.
Can't believe that I missed that, especially since a friend pulled people from the bus.