How many evacuees are there?

[Swede]

How many buses would they need to get them out of NOLA? They should divert passenger trains to Baton Rouge to help disperse them to areas that can take them.

I edited,sorry if I offended.

[Oreo]

1. I heard 50,000 left

What does a bus hold... 50 maybe?

[Swede]

3. Maybe set up tent cities?

At least til they can find places for them.

[rocktivity]

4. Between the Dome and the convention center, 50K sounds reasonable

Especially if you believe the initial report that there were 30K in the Dome to start with (subsequent reports insisted there were only one third of that). So that would one thousand one-way bus trips. If one bus left every hour 24/7 it would take nearly two days to get everyone out. Which wouldn't have been such a bad thing if it had been done on Friday.

:headbang:
rocknation

[BlueJac]

2. You means Americans in need!

[Swede]

6. I just saw Congressman Cummings? on CNN ask everyone

to stop calling them refugess. I had no idea this was not a correct term and will edit.

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. EVACUEES. Please don't call them refugees. They are American

CITIZENS. They are Americans who had to be EVACUATED from their cities. They are Evacuees. Thanks. ;)

[Lerkfish]

7. american citizens.

[Barack_America]

8. 350,000 Homes destroyed in New Orleans...do the math...

...it's pretty bleak. You have to remember that most people fled before the storm and they too need someplace to go...

[intheflow]

9. Maybe 250,000, maybe more.

I'm just guessing, but I assume the 50,000 is only people from the Superdome and hospitals in NOLA. This storm hit all over the Gulf Coast. We aren't hearing much about the people in Mississippi and Alabama, or the people being kicked out of the hotels they fled to in Florida, Alabama, upstate Louisiana, and elsewhere. This is a LOT bigger than 50,000 refugees.