Is there any one in New oRLEANS THAT WANTED TO GO BUT COULD NOT THIS TIME?

Question

Is there any one in New oRLEANS THAT WANTED TO GO BUT COULD NOT THIS TIME?

Answer 1

yes, they have about 78 in the hospital there.  but they are to bad off to be moved.  Doctors and nurses are staying with them.  

Answer 2

Torin2k7: They have moved all those people to an Angola Prison. Everyone should be out of New Orleans now!

  

Answer 3

I don't live in New Orleans but I do live an hour and 45 minutes north of New Orleans. It's not supposed to be as bad in this area because its making the turn towards Texas just before it makes it to my city. Most of the people from New Orleans (that wanted to leave) have been evacuated. I feel so sorry for the people that are actually staying. I was watching CNN and there's an elderly man living on the coast of Louisiana and is not leaving. I truly feel for him and I hope he makes it through. Also as the above answerer said doctors, nurses, police, firefighters, and other emergency response teams are required to stay in New Orleans.  

Answer 4

What did they do about the people that are incarcerated in New Orleans?!

Answer 5

Obviously first responders are still in the city.  There will be a few hospital patients who cannot be moved, but the evacuation was done very differently/better this time and no one who wanted to go was left behind.

There are always a few people who won't leave. That is NOT unique to New Orleans, but below is my take on the situation in NOLA right now:

- Most of them are people who believe they made an informed decision to stay, probably based on their experience during Katrina (not all of the city flooded). Those people will probably be OK because they are prepared and in a place that did not flood during Katrina.

- Some people stay because they view a disaster as an opportunity to steal/loot, and that is NOT something unique to New Orleans.

- Others stay because they are addicted to drugs, don't have the money to evacuate themselves, and know illegal drugs won't be allowed on the buses or in the shelters.

- A few stay because they are so out of touch with reality they don't know about the evacuation. That would include the street people who are psychotic and really should have already been in an institution.

Note that NOPD estimates there are about 10,000 people still in the city, down from about 70,000 for Katrina. The percentage of looters and druggies will probably be much lower than for Katrina - most of those populations never returned after Katrina.

There were about 500 "street people" who went to New Orleans after Katrina to take advantage of the no-questions-asked services available in a disaster zone (free food, free clothes, free shelter, free medical, etc.). They are often assumed to be "Katrina victims/homeless" by tourists but are not. They were most likely among the 11,000+ who were evacuated by bus and train, but I don't actually know.

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/...