Wehrwolfen
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It is not like they were not warned about what was about to happen.
This was the actual warning issued by the National Hurricane Center at 1011 AM CDT SUN AUG 28, 2005. After reading this, Nagin did nothing to evacuate his city. He could have used those buses pictured above to remove those that did not have transportation of their own....
Oh good, here come the revisionistas again.
The warning you posted was the day before Katrina hit. By then anyone who hadn't already left was in the process, having had ample though short-notice warning. I specifically remember Nagin's evacuation orders on TV, although by then I was already packing.
As for the buses, there would not have been time one day before to round up school buses that are not under the mayor's jurisdiction anyway, plus drivers for them and execution plans, if they were even in working condition. The bureaucracy involved FEMA, the mayor's office and the New Orleans School Board. A bureaucratic morass that doesn't lend itself to spontaneity.
I mean it's fun what you can do opportunistically with Google Images and all, but the reality is never quite that simple.
it's not like that was the only warning they were given, I just remember that warning as one of the gravest warnings I had ever seen. When you live in a city that is below sea level as New Orleans is, you should have your escape routes planned well ahead of time no matter how rich or poor you are. Nagin should have had evacuation plans in place well ahead of time for a worse case scenario. Nobody to blame except for local government.
Well we do know that Nagin made it safely out of New Orleans and that was before all those people were herded into the stadium. Hmm..., I wonder how much Nagin made from the miseries the people went through. But let's keep blaming Bush for the things he wasn't responsible for. It boggles the mind to see all those buses underwater and the number of people that could have been saved by using them for evacuation.