Without Cars, Money, and Shelter elsewhere, where were the poor of New Orleans to go to?

Question

I often here they were told to evacuate.. TO WHERE?

If you have none of the amenities to afford a successful evacuation to where do you go? God I am sick of the excuse makers of this pathetic administration.

Answers1, as many as you have plus 4. That makes it 4 to me because I had friends down there, who have now successfully relocated to our town. Good thing they were single people. Not families.

Millsy, thank you. The prejudice and culture of lack of empathy is such a disgrace for what is meant to be a christian country. Disgraceful really, hence the reason some of us keep pointing out the hypocrisy inherent in this nation.

Answer 1

I agree that the poor of New Orleans were ignored BEFORE the storm.

I am not sure why everyone is discussing what happened after the storm, that's not what your question refers too. This is not about brains its about resources, the majority of people left behind did not have transportation to get out.

Ok some people did chose to stay which in hind site I am sure they would agree was a bad decision, but that always happens in hurricanes, not everyone evacuates.

Whatever happened after is irrelevant these people were abandoned and left to their own devices because people just didn't care. That became more an more obvious in the days after the storm hit.

I think a lot of the stories that have been reported had the intention of make the refugees look bad and have been spread to cover the asses of those in power (Local and National and both Left and Right) for the biggest FCUK up in America's history.

I am sick of the excuses by everyone involved too, more could and should have been done. Everyone involved should be ashamed!

Answer 2

There were cars all over that city that were drowned. Those people could have been put on school buses or city buses and moved to shelters around the state. Sorry, people were told to evacuate, and I believe people need to take responsibility for their own actions and their own inaction's too. I see the mayor at fault 100% for not getting these people out sooner. We watched that hurricane for 5 days before it hit the gulf coast, we all knew it was going to be a cat 5, it was not a surprise to anyone. The President even called that worthless mayor and begged him to force the evacuations. The federal government is void of any blame here. The folks that stayed played their hands and they lost big time.

Answer 3

Also, the poor were turned away from some municipalities because there were no facilities to take care of them (food, shelter, sanitation, communications, etc.). I think EVERYONE in the Bush administration, and the Louisiana State and Local Government realizes this, is genuinely sorry, and is doing their best to make certain this does not happen again and to improve the current situation. Also remember there is $110 BILLION dollars already earmarked for Katrina relief, about $80 BILLION of which has already been transferred from the Federal Government to the State of Louisiana.

The only pathetic one here is you and your glass half empty perspectives. How much have you contributed to Katrina relief? How many Katrina families have you put up in your house?

Answer 4

Hey, that is fair, because I am tired of attacks by people like you on this administration for something that was not caused by the administration. The Mayor of New Orleans, and the Governor of Louisiana, by the Constitution, were in charge at that time, not the President of the US.

The people there didn't leave EITHER because they are passive and unable to take care of themselves without government help OR they didn't believe the evacuation order and simply chose to stay. In New Orleans, the larger number was in the first group.

I was watching CNN in Mexico, and the first day the video showed streets filled with water AND also cars, the ones you guys say didn't exist, floating around in the water. A day or two later, the liars of the journalist had figured out it was possible to convince stupid people that the deaths were somehow Bush' fault for not providing transportation.

So, after that, CNN only showed streets with no cars floating around in them, as if there were none, and someone, everyone, was responsible for their failure to evacuate.

There are survivors in this world. People who use whatever they have, no matter how little it is, and keep on fighting as long as they live.

And, thanks to 40 years of Democrats treating poor whites and blacks like helpless idiots, we have a large number of people who cannot do anything for themselves. If the government doesn't send them a truck of water, they will die of thirst, even with bottles of bleach which can be used for disinfecting water, floating around in the water beside them.

I consider myself a survivor. I can tell you if I had been there with an order to evacuate, and had no transportation, I'd have taken up a bag of some kind of food, a small bottle of bleach to disinfect water, and a large bottle of water, and started walking out of there, instead of lying down, crying because the Massa's didn't send a truck to take me out of there. Twenty miles isn't that far except for lazy people who would rather sit and die.

This is more than a political debate. This tells me about you as a person.

Stop demanding someone take care of you and start taking care of yourself. Being black does not make you less capable than whites unless you choose to think so. Have you ever heard of George Washington Carver? He was my ideal when I was a kid. The difference is, he didn't sit around whining, he worked hard and he developed his mind. You can do it, too. Get out to the community college, there is almost unlimited opportunity there for you.


One of the first things you need to study is government, and learn exactly why the failure to supply transport for those unwilling to walk out of there was the responsiblity of the local and state goverments. It has been written the truth shall make you free, and it is true.


Haven't you understood a word Bill Cosby has said recently?

Answer 5

Many of them had cars. New Orleans knew they were below sea level. They talk about it all the time when you're there. They also talked how they survived many hurricanes. They stayed because they didn't really believe anything would happen to them, not because they had no way to leave. This isn't a condemnation, most people just naturally think these kind of things won't happen to them.

As for where they'd go, obviously where they went. Houston and Dallas. I live in Dallas and there are many, many still here. They're going to stay. We hired a couple of evacuees at the business I work at.

Answer 6

There were busses assigned to take them to evacuation centers in Arkansas, Upper Mississippi, and Texas...Nagin refused to order the evacuation, and did not even make any busses available for "voluntary" evacuees. Then the levees broke, and the busses were half-submerged (as you have probably seen in photographs) and useless.
FEMA was real slow on the ball, no question about it...but Nagin is the one responsible for about 90% of the blame.
What a sorry *** mayor...

Answer 7

How about to the Employment offices!! Wow, that would be a first for many..!!

These people were provided with everything they needed..
In the beginning, they were given "DEBIT CARDS", wow, what a freakin mistake that was, half of them had the nerve to spend some of their cards in the ADULT BOOK STORES!!! NO Lie!!!! Then they were taken away, and given vouchers!!

Sooooo, ya want to know what I'm sick of??? I'm sick of people using and abusing the system for the sake of a free ride, while the rest of us are working our butts off, trying to make a decent living for ourselves!

So please, get your facts straight about these people before you come on here making a fool of yourself and blame the "Administration".

Answer 8

Almost everyone has friends or relatives that would be happy to help ....you can't expect the government to do everything for you.God gave people brains and everyone has a survival instinct...where there is a will there is a way.If you HAVE to blame someone blame the STATE and LOCAL authorities....they are the ones who REALLY screwed up!

Answer 9

Ask the racist Chocolate Mayor of N.O. why he left all those school buses in their motor pool to sink into the flood. What about the stupid governor of Lousyana,
who did absolutely nothing who by the way was a dimocRAT, the same as Nagin.

Answer 10

I dont know,but its really sad having to have their whole lives swept a away because of Katrina and tommorow (8/29/06) is when its been excatly 1 yr since katrina Hit. In houston,tx most the police is saying one of reasons (***not all of them though***) the crime rate went up is because when the criminals of Louisiana fled to houston they brought thier crimes and bad habits with them. Houston welcomes all the People from Lousiana! We just dont like it when criminals take advantage of the evacutions to cause crimes in Houston.

i still have lots of kids from Louisiana in my School. Thats what filled it up to maxium capcity.