 Save Yourself New Orleans had a plan to save the poor,but it sat on a shelf in L.A.
Excellent work-evacuate people to places without food and water.
Save Yourself New Orleans had a plan to save the poor,but it sat on a shelf in L.A.
LA Times ^ | 9/13/05 | Nicholas Riccardi and James Raineym,Times Staff Writers
Posted on 09/13/2005 4:12:42 PM PDT by LA Woman3
NEW ORLEANS — After years of warnings, community leaders this summer prepared a video guide to hurricane evacuations with a stark message: Many of this city's poor, including 134,000 without cars, could be left behind in a killer storm. But the 30-minute DVD still has not arrived. Some 70,000 of the newly minted videos that were to be released this month remain on warehouse shelves in Los Angeles. ADVERTISEMENT Their warning: Save yourself, and help your neighbors if you can. "Don't wait for the city, don't wait for the state, don't wait for the Red Cross," the Rev. Marshall Truehill warns in the public service announcement. The program, titled "Preparing for the Big One," was one of several related but incomplete plans aimed in particular at the one-quarter of the city's population that did not own cars or have ready transportation out of town in the event of evacuation orders.
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