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Pastimes : Hurricane and Severe Weather Tracking
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To: energyplay who wrote (2288)8/28/2005 2:42:35 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor  Read Replies (1) of 26092
 
Unwilling, some, unable, most. Evacuation requires 1) a car 2) the physical ability to get out (ie, ability to walk or have someone get you to the mode of transport). People like nursing home residents and hospital patients are SOL and 3) MONEY. As anyone in Florida will tell you, each evacuation probably costs an absolute minimum of a few hundred bucks per person. New Orleans is a very impoverished city, in that there are lots of poor folks living there. I suspect that most of the 100K staying fall into this category. Why haven't better plans been made to evacuate everyone? We'll be asking this question over and over the next few months, I'm sure. The 200+ billion spent in Iraq may have come in handy here.....<NG>
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