Originally posted by Phil Rohtla:
If I am not mistaken, the total evacuation order came AFTER the water was pouring into the city...



You are mistaken.

The President called the Mayor of NO ahead of time and requested a full evac, but the Mayor was quoted as saying, "I need 24 hours to think about it." The order was finally given 24 hours later, which was still well ahead of the storm.

The Mayor and Governor are both Democrats, and the gov't around there has been known to be corrupt for quite some time. They both most likely did not want to take orders from the President, a political opponent, and therefore they dragged their feet, when they should have tossed out party-lines and just helped their people.

When I lived in SA and we were flooded, I saw all sorts of National Guard units, and local coordination take place, because the local and state gov't didn't have their heads up their collective asses, unlike in NO.

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