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The fact that tens of thousands got out after days of torture and horror does not bring any credit in any shape, manner or form to the city or state. Traffic control is a nonstarter for more than 100,000 people, as the city makes clear in its own plan and as shown in repeated exercises. 68 buses and 2 porta-potties does not consbreastute a plan or action--not even in Zambia or Haiti.

No one said it did. But suburbanites did enter the city to seek refuge. On the contrary, jurisdictions like Jefferson Parish placed armed guards at their entrances to keep out interlopers.

Nobody I know of here has said anything of sort. That may be the sort of misstatement that triples the city's population and halves the warning. The problem as I, and quite a few others, have consistently restated, ostensibly to little avail, is that it just might have been more human, more intelligent, more who knows what, to at least start moving people out of Poydras, the river area and the overpbuttes. That was where, as clearly seen on television for four harrowing days, the authorities failed to even deliver any water or food, not to mention transportation.

It's one good bet that absolutely nobody will come up at any stage with anything close to a plausible explanation of why more than 50,000 people were left without food, water and sanitation for four days and more. "Logistically speaking," as with the buses, there was absolutely no sign of a start on the problem until Bush flew down.