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...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...
...want a repeat of the hellish conditions at the Superdome and the Convention Center, where thousands of people sought shelter after Katrina. The images and 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...
...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...
...Although at some points the strings were swallowed up in the tumultuous storm, the orchestra’s evocative performance was truly powerful...