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Well if they had a plan to get every single person out of New Orleans, having a plan on a piece of paper to do it, and it actually being possible are different things.
It's really not too hard. Work out the numbers. Prior to the hurricane there were 500+ publicly-owned buses in New Orleans itself. At 40 passengers per bus the fleet can move 20,000 people per trip. You need about five trips. Some effort at organization needs to be made for embarkation, and where to disembark deserves planning too.
You'd like to assume that the state and surrounding cities would be willing to loan some of their buses for evacuation. Private buses can be leased with standby lease agreements. It's doable with even half-full buses if you start at least 36 hours before landfall, or if the state provides buses.
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and even after FEMA was on scene and working, FEMA was no more organized than the locals
Nobody would expect FEMA to know where the residents are better than the local government officials. And nobody would possibly suspect that the local government would dump so many people in the convention center or Superdome without even thinking about the need for food, water, etc – you don't need a FEMA bureaucrat on site to tell you it's a dumb idea.
FEMA seems to have worked pretty well away from New Orleans. The serious problems seem to have happened only in Louisiana. This point should not be overlooked.
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Well, it's urban legend that made the New York Times:
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"Capt. Winn said armed groups of 15 to 25 men terrorized the others, stealing cash and jewelry. He said policemen patrolling the center told him that a number of women had been dragged off by groups of men and gang-raped - and that murders were occurring."
Did you have some reference saying it never happened I can look at?
I can't access the link.
Note that NYT is quoting hearsay: “ Capt. Winn†didn't see anything but rather heard from a friend that something happened, and that that friend may not have seen it themselves seen it but rather heard about it from someone else... NYT isn't quoting a source.
Unfortunately I read a lot, and I can't remember where I saw the interview transcript. It was early last week with the New Orleans police chief He was specifically asked about it and said that there had not been any actual police reports or citizen complaints, in spite of the fact that they were looking for it because of the rumors.
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