Relief effort has racial element?

[Redleg]

but New Orleans is not a city with multiple exits in multiple directions as seen in any other city in the United States.
New Orleans is just the same as any other city /town /village on the coast Redleg . In fact some cities would have even less major roadways .

Care to place a wager on that - New Orleans is in a swamp and in a depression. Not many cities have that constraint. You might want to look at a map of the city and the routes before you attempt to lecture. Then you might want to look at cities in the size range of New Orleans - different size towns and cities require different resources in which to evacuate the citizens.

Not many cities have over 20 miles of bridges to cross to get to the city either.


http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...te=LA&zipcode=


Now if you look at Houston - A very large city - I know of 5 routes into the city - three of them being major Highways. The map for mapquest shows even more.


http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...te=Tx&zipcode=


Here is Mobile, Alabama

Look how many major highways plus the numerous state and county roads that lead out of the city.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...te=Al&zipcode=

Here is Galveston Texas - a city that was hit several times by hurricanes

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...te=TX&zipcode=

Here is one for a small town on the east coast in Georgia

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...te=ga&zipcode=

How about Charleston

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp...te=ga&zipcode=

Looks like three routs for Charleston - two along the coast and one major highway going inland. I could zoom it even farther down and find a few state and county routs.

Again New Orleans is an unique case - there are a few major towns and cities that have the exact same conditions for road networks for evacuation - but its not a common thing like your stating here Tribesman


Notice the difference between all of them Tribesman I won't even go into the the routes out of the West Coast cities. Nor will I go into the differences of sizes, except to state a town or small city of less then 50,000 could be evacuated using a single route if it is organized, A city of 50,000 to 200,000 would begin to have difficultily to evacuate along a single route if it was not organized. A city the size of New Orleans reduced by at least one route would find it difficult to evacuate next to impossible if it was not organized and managed.

The point being is that the Mayor of New Orleans had the obligation to insure the evacuation was organized when he ordered it. The governor of Louisana had the obligation to help the second the city asked for it. The Federal Government had the obligation to activate the FEMA chain the minute the State asked for help. Can anyone state that all three levels of government accomplished their tasks in the manner in which they claimed prior to the event?

I know what I think - all three levels failed. All three failed to consider the unique circumstances of New Orleans in their planning process or worse yet they minimized the difficulty involved (and this is what I believe) - in in their complacency they failed the people of the city of New Orleans misarbly