People not allowed to leave New Orleans!!!

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Bingo. Ive heard reports of people surviving by eating dog excrement.

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Link? Or are these reports from your "man on the street"?

[lehighguy]

This obviously correct. It couldn't possibly be the following:

1) Controlling orderly refugee flow
2) Keeping roads open the bring in food and water
3) Making sure they aren't the crazy fucks who started shooting up the place
4) Some other issue the national guard thought of that we didn't.

[RacersEdge]

You really don't understand the big picture of how these operations run. You can't draw conclusions based on little snippets of information.

[Nicholasp27]

so u'd be ok with being told u are NOT allowed to leave and move freely through America? if you were in NO when this happened and you spent days working to get to the bridge so u could get to the other side and then meet family or friends or just catch a bus ride to another city to get a job and start a new life, would u be ok with being told you cannot leave? that is called "arrest"

it's ok when it's others...but would u really be so understanding if u were the one being told u cannot leave?

[OtisTheMarsupial]

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You really don't understand the big picture of how these operations run. You can't draw conclusions based on little snippets of information.

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You're right. But what could be the possible explanation for why tourists were allowed to cut in line to get onto evacuation busses today? Why them, when they were most like the MOST able to evacuate BEFORE the storm.

[newfant]

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But what could be the possible explanation for why tourists were allowed to cut in line to get onto evacuation busses today? Why them, when they were most like the MOST able to evacuate BEFORE the storm.

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Here's what happened: Those tourists were in a schmancy hotel that still had all its facilities working -- phones, water, etc. The police stations were all out of commission.

The mayor made a deal: He would evacuate those tourists out of the city with priority if they agreed to leave the hotel so that the police could use the hotel as a base. The tourists agreed and the mayor kept his word. I'm sure it wasn't an easy decision for the mayor, but he did what he thought was necessary.