Originally Posted by Brother Bilo

You act like the people of New Orleans weren't ordered or urged to evacuate and the storm just appeared out of nowhere on top of them. People of New Orleans were given more notice than the people of California, its just the people in California have enough sense to leave.

The whole argument of being too poor to leave or having nowhere to go doesn't make sense to me either. Catch a bus, find your friend who has a car, drive your own car, for christ sakes, go camping. Fuck, I do that for fun. The people who were trapped in New Orleans choose not to leave. Not that I think what happened to them was justified or anything, in fact I think it's really sad. But the fact that they were warned and told exactly what was going to happen weeks before it hit means they either didn't believe it or didn't care.

I know if the weather service and local government told us that a hurricane was going to hit Phoenix with the force of Katrina, I sure as shit wouldn't hang around to see what happens, especially if I had children.