NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- New Orleans' plan to evacuate its residents in the event of a major hurricane strike this summer may not be as complete as city officials made it sound last week when they unveiled the plan, according to a CNN review.
Mayor Ray Nagin and Terry Ebbert, director of the city's Homeland Security Department, released a plan that uses trains, planes and buses to get people out of town -- a plan Nagin told CNN is good to go.
"The fundamentals of this plan basically is to get as many people out pre-event, and right after the event," he said.
CNN took a closer look at those fundamentals and found some of them lacking, evoking a scenario reminiscent of the chaos when Hurricane Katrina hit the city last September and the finger-pointing afterward. (Watch how the plan raises doubt -- 2:32)
For one, the plan to use Amtrak trains
im so glad naggins plans are being looked at as we all know it will be blamed on bush if it happens again
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New Orleans evacuation plan has holes
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...just like to throw BOMBS at perfectly legitimate questions and then run, because they don't have objective answers.
temporary food, housing, etc. While Bush clearly promised amount x (I forget how many billions,and am too tired tonight to look it up) for rebuilding, that's now been changed to "recovery," which includes all the money spent to date not on rebuilding, but on ameliorating the NO citizens' plight (a fair amount of which was apparently scammed, one way or another).
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Bush is at fault for corrupt NOLA politicians AGAIN using/diverting funds to what THEY think it should be used for? They've done it before with millions of dollars of levee money, DK. Nagin's agenda from the start was to 'recover' by patching and fixing in order to get things looking normal again rather than rebuilding better and stronger. He's said it all along....haven't you been listening?
There is a new book out about Nagin and directly points the finger of blame at him and describes how he hid in the ivory tower of his rather than be at his post as Mayor, and also there are transcripts of the taped meeting between him, the Governor, and Bush on the plane, where the Governor describes Nagin as basically a zombie in shock not knowing what to do and wringing his hands looking for direction from her and Bush instead....even after his very vocal condemnation a few days earlier publicly of the Feds.
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so many Americans wrote their congressmen and senators telling them to pull back on the reins.
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