KATRINA'S AFTERMATH - Save Yourself - the plan for the poor

[papau]

The folks in the Lower 9th Ward (36% are below the poverty level - nearly one-third had no car) had no exit.


http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-dvd13sep13,0,5876683.story?track=tottext

KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
Save Yourself
New Orleans had a plan to warn the poor, but it sat on a shelf in L.A.
By Nicholas Riccardi and James Rainey
Times Staff Writers

September 13, 2005

NEW ORLEANS — After years of warnings, community leaders this summer prepared a video guide to hurricane evacuations with a stark message: Many of this city's poor, including 134,000 without cars, could be left behind in a killer storm.

But the 30-minute DVD still has not arrived. Some 70,000 of the newly minted videos that were to be released this month remain on warehouse shelves in Los Angeles.

Their warning: Save yourself, and help your neighbors if you can.

"Don't wait for the city, don't wait for the state, don't wait for the Red Cross," the Rev. Marshall Truehill warns in the public service announcement.

The program, titled "Preparing for the Big One," was one of several related but incomplete plans aimed in particular at the one-quarter of the city's population that did not own cars or have ready transportation out of town in the event of evacuation orders.<snip>

[zbdent]

1. They were waiting until after the Pay-Per-View receipts came in

before making it available for rental release . . .

:sarcasm: :evilgrin:

[papau]

2. What were the poor going to use to play the DVD?

or does it come with a TV plus computer PLUS DVD reader?

:sarcasm: :evilgrin:

[zbdent]

3. They were going to use the DVD player that came with the satellite

system the signed up for after switching from cable. Remember? All the poor people have cable . . .

:sarcasm: