CNN: New Orleans evacuation plan not good enough

[Initech]

So with all the news coming out about wire tapping and the NSA and security holes, CNN's home page has an article talking about something that should have happened, um........... last fucking year!!! Not only is this article talking about what we already know, but the highlight is the sub-headline followed by the accompanying picture. They must have been reading "DUH" maagazine.

New Orleans evacuation plan has holes
City's security chief: Plan to use trains, planes, buses will work <---- :wow:

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From Susan Roesgen
CNN Gulf Coast Bureau
Thursday, May 11, 2006; Posted: 6:12 p.m. EDT (22:12 GMT)

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.

For one, the plan to use Amtrak trains to evacuate the sick and elderly has not been completed with the rail operator. However, Amtrak officials said they are working on a memorandum of understanding with the city.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/05/11/new.orleans.evacuation/index.html

[babylonsister]

1. Reuters has a very different take:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=364&topic_id=1159857