Is Rita going to prove as destructive as Katrina? God only knows. However, it seems that the evacuation simply isn't working. Cars are bumper to bumper, lanes on the highway are being kept closed and not being used as contra-flow, the sick, elderly and children are sitting in extremely hot vehicles, some people are turning back and going home rather than be caught on the highway.......and the poor are still immobile.
The storm's march toward land sent hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the nation's fourth-largest city in a frustratingly slow, bumper-to-bumper exodus.AmericaBlog hits the nail on the head with this paragraph.
"This is the worst planning I've ever seen," said Judie Anderson, who covered just 45 miles in 12 hours after setting out from her home in the Houston suburb of LaPorte. "They say we've learned a lot from Hurricane Katrina. Well, you couldn't prove it by me."
Bush is right: Osama is watching and laughing.
Four years and billions of dollars of planning, and guess what? We can't evacuate a single city worth a damn. This isn't just about mayors and governors. This is no longer just about New Orleans. It seems that our emergency plans just don't work, at least as it concerns mass evacuations.
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