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Originally Posted by aico
You are forgetting that the people who stayed, did so by choice. Evacuation began 1 week prior to the hurricane hitting. If they couldn't leave, they should have made that clear to their local officials and I am sure they would have helped them out, but most people there, chose to stay, for one reason of the other.
Those that stayed, did not count on the levy breaking and instantly flooding out the whole place. You must think that the water just trickled in, it didn't, it filled up as fast as it could rush through the broken levy.
Obviously from that picture, after the levy broke and the place flooded, those buses were inoperable, and worthless.
I am sure if they knew the levy was going to break and you'd end up on your roof, no one would have stayed.
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Basically all that we're saying is that an informed Mayor and Governor should have been prepared for a worse case scenario. There are always people by choice or not that will stay in their homes thinking things are going to be ok, and wind up in a life death situation. We still do our best to rescue those people.