Nagin & Fema develp new evacuation plan for NOLA

[webke]

Thought this may be of interest.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060502/ap_ ... NlYwM3MTg-

[skysummit]

Already posted in Hurricane Prepardness.

[webke]

Sorry, I didn't know.

[Camille_2_Katrina]

one thing i'm afraid of... is if a major ends up in the gulf they will
start a mandatory evacuation WAY in advance for New Orleans.
Witch i believe is a good idea... but it may get very old very fast
if strong storms keep showing up and nothing ever comes of it.

[TSmith274]

Sorry, I didn't know.

Ah, don't worry about it. I didn't even know there was a hurricane preparedness forum on here. It's useful here too.

[artist]

hopefully it will be followed fully this time and at a much earlier time if there is a threat again.

[skysummit]

Yes, they may jump the gun on evacuations...especially the first time. Nagin did say, however, the evacuation and contraflow plan will not start until 30 hours prior to landfall. I really hope we don't have to do this again, but it's going to be interesting to see how the public reacts if we do. Plus, once a storm enters the gulf, you know the media will go in a frenzy about New Orleans.

[sunny]

The only thing new in this one is the evaucation of the city for a cat 2. Otherwise it's basically the same plan we had before....