>There is plenty of blame to go around, so don't be so quick to put all the blame on the feds without knowing all the details of NOLA's and LA's level of planning and preparedness.

OK. Point taken. Yes there's plenty to go around. indeed they should not have sent people to the Superdome unless they provided generators, food, medicines, porta-pottys and medical personnel.

In Miami Beach where I live, in an evacuation zone, there are signs all over the place identifying Evacuation Pick-Up points. The elderly and the poor are picked up by County buses and taken to some shelter in case of a mandated evacuation.

In New Orleans they ordered an evacuation. Approx 20% of the people stayed. Many, if not most, because they are too poor to afford transportation or a place to stay. They should have been provided.