From: John Cuccia 

On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:23:24 -0400, Richard B.  wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 18:27:46 -0700, Ellen K.
> wrote:
>
>>The people interviewed were old and poor (and probably black but of
>>course the newspaper wouldn't print that part).
>
>Ellen,
>
>Having lived most of my life on the coast and having experienced quite
>a few storms and a couple of major ones, I found anyone who wanted to
>leave could, with little ingenuity, get the hell outta Dodge.

Ingenuity isn't one of the strengths of a lot of the people who couldn't
leave.  g. Many didn't even know there was a storm coming. Hell, as late as
the 10AM advisory on Friday New Orleans wasn't in the 3-day probability
cone for a strike.  By 5PM Friday New Orleans was starting to come into the
picture, but how do you get the word to a million people on Friday
night/Saturday morning.

It looks like about 75% of the population of the metro area evacuated. I
doubt you'd do better than that anywhere.

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