New Orleans asks Feds to pay for hurricane shelters instead of evacuations
Comments (0) In a stunning stroke of chuztpah, New Orleans has decided that it costs too much to evacuate people from hurricanes, and that the Federal government (you and me) should pay for a hurricane shelter for people who can’t evacuate on their own. From the Times Picayune
Ultimately, that strategy may be replaced by the construction of a fortress at home: a hurricane-resistant shelter that city officials want the federal government to finance. Some believe that tack could be cheaper, safer and easier for the city’s most vulnerable.
“The evacuations probably cost us around $100 million last year, ” said New Orleans Emergency Preparedness Director Jerry Sneed, referring to federal and state money that paid for buses, trucks and Amtrak trains used to move people and their pets to faraway shelters, also government-financed.
Unsurpringly they also found:
Neither race nor gender made anyone more likely to die, only a failure to evacuate and a location near a levee breach.
I’ve got an idea – how about you MOVE AWAY from a city that is below SEA LEVEL! Oh wait – half the population of New Orleans has already made this decison!
