Boardwalk Jedi
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 28, 2016
It was and I felt so bad for the people. So many honestly had no way to evacuate. But I thought they were supposed to go to the convention center? Edit: Just looked it up, I had it backwards. They were told to go to the Super dome. That makes what happened even worse!
I am not sure about the areas with Florence but people need to realize that in a lot of areas mandatory evacuations are not a regular thing. Not even a yearly thing. So constantly being prepared to pick up and go isn’t as easy as it sounds.
As for jobs, the job may not be in the evacuation area. We weren’t under a mandatory evacuation but I am certain there were people that were that were in my son’s situation. His job at the time was 5 hours to the west. He had to go the day after Katrina. Well he could go early but finding a place to stay was impossible plus he would have been trying to go toward where everyone else’s was evacuating from. If he went with us or a different direction, he was taking a chance of not getting back. I can certainly understand the hard decision for some people.
Another problem is getting home. Many people never returned to New Orleans and the outskirts. Contrary to the victim blaming politicians at the time, many of those people owned their homes outright or had up to date mortgages on them.