the city's evacuation plan, which called for 64 MTA buses to be used in the event of evacuation
In a city of this size, the fact that 64 of anything were called for shows the terrible planning. 64 cruise ships to ferry out citizens at 4000 perhaps more appropriate. . . or 64 C-130 transport planes. I mean it simply doesn't add up. 64 MTA busses can move 5,000. When upwards of 100,000 need rides.
A sixth grader can do the calculations. . .
The search and rescue response called for by the governor in her letter to the president, included "150 to 200 boats from Department of Wildlife and Fisheries." This was likewise terribly inadequate. If we were to use the figures from the study that claimed 250,000 would be left stranded by floodwaters, then each of all 200 boats would be theoretically responsible for 1,250 evacuees. About 6 evacuees per trip with a single rescue and round trip to safety being about 1.5 hours, it would take 13 days of 24 hour operations to rescue everyone. . .assuming it was meticulously planned, everyone stayed put, and nothing went wrong.
Since dehydration is a common enemy within this climate and it can easily set in within 3 days, then the search and rescue response called for by the governor and set forth in her letter to the president is proven to be grossly inadequate.
It sounds funny, but the schoolteachers who taught the Louisiana governor basic mathematics and logic have been shamed.
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