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...without cars of their own. The situation in New Orleans, though, was particularly dire. Officials knew that the least mobile residents lived in the most flood-prone part of town. But they had no solution. "When I asked that question, I got a lot of unsure looks," says Brian Wolshon, an engineer with the L.S.U. team who helped design the evacuation plans with state police and transportation officials...
...thousands of deaths. One problem, in retrospect, is that no one had wanted to believe it. "I'll be honest with you. I'm the researcher, I'm doing all the models, and sometimes I would say to myself, 'Am I Chicken Little? Could this really happen?'" says Wolshon. "Even I was in denial, and I was the one running all the numbers...
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