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Originally posted by: mercury_rev
I left New Orleans on the Saturday afternoon before Katrina hit, less than 48 hours before landfall. Nagin had not even officially suggested voluntary evacuations of Orleans parish, let alone mandatory evacs.
That all those buses weren't used is a testament to the incompetence of Louisiana government officials.
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you must have missed the mayor's evacuation order, he gave it before you left Saturday afternoon;
"But as Hurricane Katrina bore down on the city Aug. 27, Nagin, concerned over the city's potential liability for business losses, hesitated to order a mandatory evacuation before checking with his legal staff. He called for a voluntary evacuation that day and gave the mandatory evacuation order the next morning, when the hurricane was less than a day away."
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