Link: New Orleans's Hurricane Evacuation "Plan"
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/09/new_orleanss_hu.html
Synopsis: a news item from July 24, 2005, that starts:
In storm, N.O. wants no one left behind; Number of people without cars makes evacuation difficult
By Bruce Nolan, Staff writer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2005
City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give the poorest of New Orleans' poor a historically blunt message: In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own. In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation.
Synopsis: a news item from July 24, 2005, that starts:
In storm, N.O. wants no one left behind; Number of people without cars makes evacuation difficult
By Bruce Nolan, Staff writer, New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 24, 2005
City, state and federal emergency officials are preparing to give the poorest of New Orleans' poor a historically blunt message: In the event of a major hurricane, you're on your own. In scripted appearances being recorded now, officials such as Mayor Ray Nagin, local Red Cross Executive Director Kay Wilkins and City Council President Oliver Thomas drive home the word that the city does not have the resources to move out of harm's way an estimated 134,000 people without transportation.