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To: energyplay who wrote (2288)	8/28/2005 2:30:19 PM
From: redfish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26092

This is why you have to evacuate BEFORE it is clear the storm will hit you ... right now there is gridlock on every interstate and state highway leaving the area ... also there are no hotels available within a ten hour drive (I don't know that as a fact but that's what happens in Florida and it's probably worse in NOLA). Once it is perfectly clear that you will get whacked it is too late ... all essential personnel will be focused on getting people to shelters, nobody is going to give you a ride out. Cops, firemen etc. will be on duty for the next several days and risking their lives to save people ... right now all they can do is direct you to a shelter.

To: energyplay who wrote (2288)	8/28/2005 2:40:25 PM
From: Steve Lokness	Respond to of 26092

<Why no government supplied transportation for evacuation ?> How do you answer that without seeming political? If I was King for a day, you can be assured that all resources of the government would be immediately available. For starters, I would have loaded up the Amtracks sitting in NC and trucked them to NOLA in case they were needed. Steve

To: energyplay who wrote (2288)	8/28/2005 2:42:35 PM
From: patron_anejo_por_favor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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>