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Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor
Of course I can't find it now but yesterday I read that people living in NO were twice as likely as the average American to be without a car.
If that one bit from the article is true, then there is blame to be laid at the Mayor's office.
I fully believe that everyone fvcked this one up and I'm not going to join the crowd who want to pin it all on the feds.
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There is a lot of blame to be laid at the mayor's feet- he has the authority to mobilize transportation to get people out who have no personal transport, no means, or are physically unable to get out on their own. The claim that people were too poor to leave and were left to die is a fallacy- the mayor COULD have gotten them out- he did not do so. He told them to hoof it with their own food and water to the Superdome.
That bus pic is not a joke- it's a very serious indictment of his failure. There is a NOLA evac plan- which said that in the case of a F-3 hurricane (let alone a 5) that the city would provide transportation OUT of there- they did not.
Whatever the FEMA failure- the massive catastrophic failure was at the local level.