Guns, Butter, and Led Zepplin

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On the subject of 'not having the money to leave in the first place':  I was out of the media loop for the first part of the Katrina disaster (I have a radio at the cottage but seldom turn it on, and no other media acess.)    When I heard that there was an evacuation order, my (naive) assumption was that the wherewithal to actually do so would be made available to all residents there.  i.e.  that the city would be commandeering all buses of any kind and providing transportation out of the city to all who showed up at a series of designated pick-up points.    Apparently this was not the case.  :blink:    If you had money, you could leave.  If you had a vehicle of your own and gas to put in it, you could leave.  But if you had niether, you were SOL, apparently.  :huh:

I really hope, before the finger-pointing exercises wind down, that someone asks some pointed questions to the Mayor of New Orleans as to why this had to be the case.
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The evacuation plan for NO was inadequate and appears to have been administrated by incompetents. The evacuation was not called for until too late, the shelters were not out of the danger zone, and no allowances appear to have been made for people that wanted to leave and were unable. There are always those holdouts that won't leave/try to weather the storm to consider too. The evacuation order was NOT a mandatory evacuation until after the storm had gone through the area.