Yep. We saw the 10p Friday hurricane track and decided to leave- we started making preparations the next morning, and left at 9am. There was absolutely *no* increased traffic. If the dumbass local authorities had been on top of things, they wouldn't have sat on their asses until mere hours before the storm hit to order an evacuation.
People can bitch and moan about how the federal response was too slow, but the fact of this tragedy is that citizens that stayed brought it on themselves, and the local authorities like Nagin and Blanco are primarily to blame here.
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Date: 2005-09-04 04:57 am (UTC)People can bitch and moan about how the federal response was too slow, but the fact of this tragedy is that citizens that stayed brought it on themselves, and the local authorities like Nagin and Blanco are primarily to blame here.