shelters, more do drivers? anything.
If "thousands of things were done," they surely weren't effective in any meaningful sense. And that is without dreaming, as much as it is without making excuses.
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Continue to be as patronizing and condescending as you want, old fart, but concentrate on the problem and be honest--the most severe problem was in the city of New Orleans, and 1.3 million people did not need to be evacuated because they faced flooding. That is three times the number for the city.
As long as you started the name calling and seem intent on perpetuating it, the plays didn't do a blessed thing for the population for the whole weekend except open the gates to the unequipped so-called Superdome. The storm moved made landfall between Slidell and Gulfport on Monday morning. The winds reached Category 3 at the height. That is from the main story in The New York Times on August 30, front page and page A13.
They had since Friday night, when the official notice was given, to do something, anything. You say they did "thousands of things." Name one that the residents of the city without vehicles could see and could use.
No, you haven't. You just excuse the inaction.
But for the tens of thousands who wanted to leave voluntarily but did not have vehicles, you and the city and the state have absolutely no answer.