I thought I was going to be the only one who noticed that the Mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin (D), and the Governor of Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco (D), that the "Mandatory" evacuation didn't have any busses to take people out of harm's way. Power graf:
Many said the humanitarian disaster was set in motion before Hurricane Katrina even struck — because of the lack of an effective evacuation plan for people who did not have the means or the will to leave town on their own.
"That there wasn't any real plan for the government to help get people out of here when the evacuation was made mandatory was the weakest point in the scenario," said Greg Shaw of George Washington University's Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management.
"If they had gotten the majority of these people out before the real flooding happened, then it would have been a matter of dealing with a large refugee population, not fighting to pull 100,000 people out of a giant lake."
That lapse has stunned experts because officials have known for years that New Orleans would likely be entirely flooded if hit by a hurricane the size of Katrina. In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in a report that 1 million people could be left homeless and as many as 50,000 killed by such a storm.
And while I hear the Left screaming that George Bush "doesn't care about balck people", it only serves to make me more stalwart in my support of the President and FEMA.
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