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mercury_rev · 09-12-2005, 04:27 PM

I remember listening to the radio on the way out of the city that Saturday. Nagin and Blanco were emphasizing the importance of leaving the Gulf parishes, but they were pretty noncommittal about whether it was time for Orleans parish residents to get out. They certainly weren't stressing it much. Maybe I missed some official call for voluntary evac....But given that they opened an I-10 contraflow at 4pm Saturday, you'd think they would have come right out and said "Everyone in the area -- you need to get out absolutely no later than Sunday." I don't remember them ever saying anything that blunt and forceful.

Anyhow, we should have been leaving the city on Friday, according to their evac plans. That would have given them more time to accommodate those who couldn't leave on their own. They dropped the ball.

09-12-2005, 04:27 PM	#13
mercury_rev Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 672	RE:Ray Nagin - Bafoon in Charge I remember listening to the radio on the way out of the city that Saturday. Nagin and Blanco were emphasizing the importance of leaving the Gulf parishes, but they were pretty noncommittal about whether it was time for Orleans parish residents to get out. They certainly weren't stressing it much. Maybe I missed some official call for voluntary evac....But given that they opened an I-10 contraflow at 4pm Saturday, you'd think they would have come right out and said "Everyone in the area -- you need to get out absolutely no later than Sunday." I don't remember them ever saying anything that blunt and forceful. Anyhow, we should have been leaving the city on Friday, according to their evac plans. That would have given them more time to accommodate those who couldn't leave on their own. They dropped the ball.