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a lot of people left because they couldn't. with gas prices what they are, and the economic class in which they inhabit....what else could you expect? a lot of people stuck around because they COULDN"T leave.
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so he's supposed to singlehandely fix the problem himself because he's an elected official? damn...i guess it is ok that the federal government took as long as it did, because nagin himself should have been on top of the ball. this response is idiotic.
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Read the article already posted above about how Nagin mis-handled the situation. While he is not single handedly supposed to fix it, he is the one that in charge down there. If there was any lack of activity it was due to him not doing his job.
I still think that most of the blame lies with the local and state gov't in this situation. The Feds now have to come in to clean up an even bigger mess.
It does take time to mobilize troops. Especially when the state and feds are fighting over control of the situation. The gov down there didn't want the feds to take over b/c they didn't want 'martial law' there. That wrestle of power took time away from the victims. There are many things that added to the time, although 5 days before there was any help is definitly wrong. Yeah, it was a few days before there were a 100k troops, but there have been help there since it happened.
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