It will be very hard to convince me that 100k people in New Orleans
> were incapable of leaving in advance. Many poor people have cars, or
> have friends/families with cars. There were enough cars in NO to > evacuate everyone.
Interestingly, the prophetic series by the Times-Picayune back in 2002 predicted exactly that:
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"...And 100,000 people without transportation will be especially threatened. .... A large population of low-income residents do not own cars and would have to depend on an untested emergency public transportation system to evacuate them."The entire series is available here:
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