As an evacuee, you'll pardon me if I sound a little snarky. It's been a long couple of days.
1) Not having a shelter of last resort was a good idea. It meant that people didn't stay where no help could get to people. People left.
2) Buses were plentily available. It was widely televised that you didn't have to provide personal information or sign up on a registry to get onto a bus. The only rules were no booze, no drugs, no weapons. They actually extended the widely-publicised pickup times for buses.
3) Information about evacuation services were impossible not to find.
This experience has been nothing like Katrina. Gustav will be Gustav, but anyone who dies this time around is not a victim of incompetence or governmental apathy or socioeconomics, but of their own informed choices.
(And yes, I am both a New Orleanian and a Woody Guthrie-listening liberal. I'm not drinking the Kool-Ade.)
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Date: 2008-09-01 03:56 am (UTC)1) Not having a shelter of last resort was a good idea. It meant that people didn't stay where no help could get to people. People left.
2) Buses were plentily available. It was widely televised that you didn't have to provide personal information or sign up on a registry to get onto a bus. The only rules were no booze, no drugs, no weapons. They actually extended the widely-publicised pickup times for buses.
3) Information about evacuation services were impossible not to find.
This experience has been nothing like Katrina. Gustav will be Gustav, but anyone who dies this time around is not a victim of incompetence or governmental apathy or socioeconomics, but of their own informed choices.
(And yes, I am both a New Orleanian and a Woody Guthrie-listening liberal. I'm not drinking the Kool-Ade.)