[link|http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/neworleans.transport/index.html|Campaign reportedly urged self-reliance for poor]

Weeks before Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans, government officials reportedly were organizing a campaign to warn the city's poor that they would need to find their own way out in the event of an evacuation.
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Nagin, who bluntly criticized the feds for their response to the disaster, was among those taking part in the campaign to the poor.
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The newspaper also reported that the New Orleans Regional Transit Authority planned to make 64 buses and 10 lift vans available in the event of an emergency. But "whether that means out of town or to local shelters of last resort would depend on emergency planners' decision at that moment," an agency spokeswoman told the paper.

The paper said government officials acknowledged that even that plan would help only a fraction of the city's poor population.

The plan was not followed in the case of Katrina. City and state officials have said no one was sent to poor communities to ensure people knew about mandatory evacuation orders.

Wow.

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