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...Orleans, there will be city transportation to evacuate residents - as well as their pets. The trains will help in the migration. The city is working with airlines to make sure tourists with tickets get a plane ride out. But residents who stay are on their own, says Mayor Ray Nagin. There will be no ?shelter of last resort? for riding out the storm, no replay of the horrors that occurred after Hurricane Katrina at the Superdome or the Convention Center...
...With the June 1 start of the 2006 hurricane season looming, Nagin and emergency officials outlined a broad plan on Tuesday to evacuate and secure the city if another major storm threatens. Citing the hard lessons learned after Hurricane Katrina, when residents and tourists were stranded in the city for nearly a week after the August 29 landfall, Nagin vowed to make better use of city and federal resources next time around. Along with mobilizing the city?s transit system to evacuate residents, he said the city had been working with the federal Department of Homeland Security to make sure...
...tales of people stranded in the shelters without lights, air conditioning or adequate food and water supplies have lingered long after the storm. ?As I?ve stated before, there will be no shelter of last resort in the event of a major hurricane that?s coming our way,? Nagin said. ?The Convention Center will be used only - only - as a staging point for bus evacuations, both pre-event and post-event...
...calls for citizens to take more responsibility for their own safety. Terry Ebbert, New Orleans? director of Homeland Security, said he expects no more than 10,000 people to fall into the ?special needs? category - those with medical conditions or handicaps or who lack transportation of their own. And Nagin said the city?s responsibility for these residents would extend only to getting them on a bus out of town; from there, he said, the state would be responsible for setting up emergency shelters outside the areas vulnerable to flooding...
...Even though the levees that surround the city are being rebuilt to higher standards, Nagin said, the city would consider mandatory evacuations for ?anything above a category 2? storm and ?definitely for a category 3.? Katrina was a category 3 hurricane when it made landfall. Nagin said the city would not forcibly remove residents from their homes, but that police would enforce a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the aftermath of a hurricane. To encourage more people to evacuate, the emergency plan makes provisions to help evacuate pets on the same buses used to evacuate residents, provided their owners have...