JR
September 4th, 2005, 09:26 PM
"Brian Wolshon, an engineering professor at Louisiana State University who
served as a consultant on the state's evacuation plan, said little
attention was paid to moving out New Orleans's "low-mobility" population —
the elderly, the infirm and the poor without cars or other means of
fleeing the city, about 100,000 people.
"At disaster planning meetings, he said, 'the answer was often silence.'"
http://tinyurl.com/dedvj
JR
served as a consultant on the state's evacuation plan, said little
attention was paid to moving out New Orleans's "low-mobility" population —
the elderly, the infirm and the poor without cars or other means of
fleeing the city, about 100,000 people.
"At disaster planning meetings, he said, 'the answer was often silence.'"
http://tinyurl.com/dedvj
JR