On 4/9/07, Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It is generally not possible to get people in hurricane areas to
evacuate until there is a reasonable amount of certainty that the storm
poses a threat to them. Officials sometimes recommend evacuating
earlier, but only as a CYA measure.
From what I understand, there was significant gridlock, but mostly to
the northwest.
Forty-eight hours was ample time
and, as I've pointed out earlier, it worked almost without a hitch.
Contra-flow was initiated immediately and the practice exercise earlier
in the year made it go like clockwork.
I agree, those who wanted to leave and could leave, did so in a very
efficient manner. Those are not the folks I'm speaking of.
I'm talking about how the poor and immobile were taken by city bus to
the superdome, and worse, the convention center - against the disaster
plan - and no effort was made to get them out of the city. none
whatsoever.
