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Monday, July 11, 2005
Cindy...Dennis...Emily....
Last year we didn't have a hurricane until August 19.
This year everyone is in a panic, afraid of rainstorms. The coastal parishes (counties) and the state government have been working for a year to develop an organized plan of evacuation. The plan was for those citizens in gravest danger to evacuate first followed in stages by those in less danger. So, for our area it would be the coastal areas followed by people on the west bank of the Mississippi river, followed by New Orleans, Metairie and Kenner, followed by the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain south of I-12.
The plan lasted until Dennis struck Cuba. Then, Phil Capitano and the Kenner city council decided that Kenner residents were more important than the coastal folks and called for a voluntary evacuation. Three hours later, Jefferson Parish declared their own evacuation. If people had paid attention, all of the highways would have been gridlocked, preventing evacuation by the people along the coast who were in the most danger.
Fortunately, the general citizenry did what their government officials failed to do. They listened to the National Hurricane Center and stayed home. It seems that the politicians thought they could interpret the weather better than the experts.
Hopefully, the State of Louisiana will assume responsibility for all evacuation notices in the future. If they don't, a lot of people will be killed by the local politicians who seem to be in a rush to see who can get on TV first.
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