>>Could it really be true that each nation has the government it deserves? http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/07/19/typhoon.haitang/ - note the "evacuated one million" part.
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>Well about 80% of N.O. residents did leave before the storm hit.
>The other 20%... it's anyone's guess. Yeah, there were the very sick and the elderly, but we saw (on TV) many very able-bodied individuals that didn't leave for some reason.

Well, I think the President explained their reason: "Noone could have predicted that the levees would break".