Do you really think that all the people will be able to be evacuated from New Orleans? ?

Question

The expected landfall has been moved way up! Now it will hit tomorrow,early in the morning. They had 700 buses to move 35,000 people? Do the math! It'll take days to get'm all out! The roads are jammed and accidents are making things worse.

Answer 1

Unfortunately I doubt it.  I had friends there who left two days ago thank goodness.  At least the National Guard has been activated...the part not in Iraq.  The regular Army is supposed to have units assigned to "Homeland Security" that can be activated as well, though I have had no news of that being done as yet.

Answer 2

I would be shocked if they all could be.  

Answer 3

Governor Jendal is in control. Things will go much smoother

Answer 4

No, because there are people who are refusing to leave....AGAIN, even after what happened with Katrina (a category 3 hurricane, Gustaf is projected to be a category 4 or 5!).  I don't think we should have to help people who don't even try to help themselves.  Get out NOW.  Please.  

Answer 5

They should have issue a voluntary evacuation, days earlier, but of course it would had mess up with the already messed Rep Convention; now they are dealing with things almost to the last minute, no shelter has been set for those left behind and as we could see the Astrodome itself barely make it with Katrina.

They knew it was coming again, I mean it's not a relative that just happened to drop by, He (Bush) who forgets history is likely to repeat it!  

Answer 6

Nope... but what more can you do for people that Choose to live in stick houses in front of planet molding oceans

It's like people that live on islands... sure it's the Most Beautiful Place on the Planet... untill it get's ugly.

Answer 7

The evacuation IS more effective this time, and people are being moved to shelters well outside the area instead of to somewhere like the Superdome. It also means no one who wants to go will be left behind.  

The non-assisted evacuation is also going well (despite accidents. etc.) and contra-flow will probably end Sunday afternoon.

Do realize that by normal standards the 2005 evacuation for Katrina was a huge success. At least 95% of the city's population (then 1,400,000) left before Katrina arrived. About half of those who did not leave went to the Superdome, which was the designated shelter. It was the other 2.5% that you saw trapped on roofs and stranded at the Convention Center.

However, 2.5% of 1,400,000 is still about 35,000 people - not counting the 30,000 at the Superdome.

The city's population now is between 1,250,000 and 1,300,000 and most of the people who did not evacuate for Katrina have not returned to the city.  The more effective state-supervised evacuation plan has fewer people to move than were the case in 2005, and that helps