>>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.
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>According to the reports I heard they were offered a ride out of the city Days before the storm hit. Many just flatly refused to go.

Gotta wonder, though, how it could have been that 100,000+ residents were OFFERRED a ride out yet none of the network/cable channels have reported it (at least that I've heard of, and I have it on (CNN, NBC) pretty much all the time here).