An 80% evacuation rate from a major city is an UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS"

[Walt Starr]

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It's TRUTH!

[Tesibria]

1. great ...

do we have any documented evidence of this. I always feel better when I have a site/reference.

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[Emit]

2. Walt, I've been looking for a link to this figure

I need it for a thread I've started early-on on another discussion board. I'll keep looking, but if you know of a source already, can you point me in that direction. TX!

[Wildewolfe]

3. Wait a sec...

... I seem to recall them saying the day of the hurricane, that some 75% or so of the city had evacuated itself prior to it hitting.

Wouldn't that mean the aftermath has evacuated *5%* of the population?

[stray cat]

6. This is the evacuation before the storm hit - the mandatory evac.

The mayor urged everyone to evacuate Sat night before the storm and called for a mandatory evacuation and authorized pre-planned "hurricane escape routes" Sun AM before the hurricane.

[stray cat]

4. Right! especially that quickly with so few directions to flee.

Also they had a plan that they carried out effectively to get people to the shelters who couldn't leave. They bused people to the shelters from all over the city. Resupplying people after the storm was the failure and helping those who had tried to ride out the storm possibly because they were afraid of the shelters.

[rocktivity]

5. Not if the other 20% were left to die because they COULDN'T evacuate

:cry:
rocknation

[stray cat]

8. They were bused into the shelters if they wanted to come.

The shelters needed more supplies and a larger police force. However, the death toll in the shelters wasn't directly from the hurricane. The people were not forgotten until after the hurricane.

[rocktivity]

12. Those who went to the Super Dome should have been taken to shelters

AWAY from the storm's path. Which could easily have been done by the day BEFORE Katrina hit if FEMA had had its act together.

After all, the whole point of the evacuation was to get people out of the way because the levees might break. In the Super Dome and convention center, they couldn't help but be sitting ducks.

:(
rocknation

[Tesibria]

7. NYT Article discussing, in part, the evacuation rate

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/04/national/nationalspecial/04reconstruct.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1125874813-2UMXNQbEdYu+k29nwkrYgA

(looking for more)

[Old and In the Way]

9. Katrina goes from Cat3 to Cat 5 in 4 hours, starting Sunday AM

I think they did a fantastic job getting close to a million people out without complete chaos. The city/state did their part...the feds screwed up..again.

[xiamiam]

10. im with you on this one n/t

[Totally Committed]

11. That anyone needed to be evacuated at all due to the negligence,

ineptitude, and poor leadership of the POTUS is a PURE, UNMITIGATED DISASTER.

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It's TRUTH!

TC

[Jade Fox]

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