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They're flying and busing them all out in a total evacuation of New Orleans, courtesy of the Bush Admin actually, Ray Nagin said that if anyone stays "they're on their own." That means to emergency services, no shelter.
^Ah, "*no* emergency services". Don't know how a 't' got in there.
Voted : Let's just say...
...that I'm not overly enthusiastic about their chances.
Hard to say. I think they might have learned their lesson, but they seldom do.
As little as the feds did for Katrina though, a lot of the ball was in New Orleans' court. After Katrina hit, Nagin himself was sitting in a hotel room in Dallas while buses that could have been used for evacuation were sitting underwater.
I've lived in a hurricane prone state all my life and can remember numerous times seeing the convoy of buses, filled with evacuees, headed north 3 to 4 days before a storm was to hit. You just don't sit around and wait for Washington to hold your hand.
Voted : Let's just say...
After being too preoccupied with attacking, then "saving" percieved threatening Countries with a "whatever it costs" mentality as their first priority, they have smelled the coffee but I don't think their response will be what it should be nonetheless...
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