Awkward silence
 

"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.'"

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