Reply #12: Totally not true [View All]

[Horse with no Name]

There were many tourists trapped that couldn't get out.
There were many poor people who couldn't get rides out of town that wanted to leave.
20,000 people that could have gotten out...add that to 20,000 that could have been taken out by the school buses that are now underwater, then that would be 40,000 that they didn't have to worry getting out of the city now. There are currently 30,000 in the Superdome and more coming with deteriorating conditions.
Out of 1.3 million, 1 million people evacuated on their own.
There are now 300,000 people that have to be removed and 40,000 is a significant chunk of that. I wouldn't even speculate how many are dead in their homes and in the streets...but those 40,000 that COULD have been evacuated on Sunday would have been a good start.