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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Now it's my turn to ask a "just so I'm clear on this" question ... If you couldn't leave the city for whatever reason when the mandatory evacuation was ordered, were people offered the dozen or so shelter locations or were they ordered to vacate their homes & get to one of the shelters?
My impression is that the city basically (or even explicity) acknowledged the difficulties in leaving town that some residents faced, I'm just not clear on what those people were told to do.
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I think the phrase that was being reported was "destination of last resort." New Orleans officials were careful not to use the phrase "shelter," because they weren't convinced that the buildings would be safe. The
order was to evacuate the city. The Superdome and other places were given as destinations of last resort, if you couldn't get out of town, I'm pretty sure.