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To: tejek who wrote (251982)	9/19/2005 5:38:12 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) of 1575705

re: Nagin did what every mayor does when a disaster is forecast. He announced a ME on tv and in the press. Cops and firemen went through neighborhoods with bullhorns, announcing the evacuation. He contra flowed the freeways leaving town to expedite traffic. He had people who could not evacuate moved to shelters on buses. Exactly. They have never done even that much for a mandatory evacuation here. And this area is probably the second most vulnerable on the gulf coast (from a human perspective). re: You keep assuming that people who didn't evacuate couldn't only because they did not have cars and Nagin should have gotten them on buses and shipped them out of town. What you refuse to look at is that transportation was just part of the problem. The bigger part of the equation that you consistently ignore.....the one that plays the greatest role in these things......is that the people in question had no where to go. They couldn't afford a motel and they did not have relatives outside of NO. Not only that, but it is getting late in the time line. The bus drivers have evacuated... hell, most people wouldn't wait to drive their bus to the last minute without knowing they could get out in time. Suppose he sends 10,000 people to the corner of Bourbon and Canal, and the buses don't show (which they didn't where they were supposed to)? Now what? They are exposed to the storm, with no way to get to shelters. No, you send them to the shelters, assuming that the experts, FEMA, are poised and ready, not asleep. But they were busy in Washington exchanging memos. The "cavalry" never arrived. Makes you sick the inept leadership we elected. John

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