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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (283136)	4/5/2006 5:56:55 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578161

"My experience is that they come about 3 days after the storm." In Rita, pretty much everybody evacuated. Katrina was rather fresh in everybody's mind. They then weren't allowed to return for more than a week. Which is going to make future evacuations even tougher. The people who stayed behind, i.e. police and other city workers, were forced to break into stores to get things like food and water. FEMA had brought in trailers of supplies, but nobody was authorized to release them. There weren't any stores open for days after the return because FEMA was restricting trucks from coming in. Besides, electricity wasn't restored to most places.