GoRon
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The mayor called the order unprecedentedd said anyone who could leave the city should. He exempted hotels from the evacuation order because airlines had already cancelled all flights.
Gov. Kathleen Blanco, standing beside the mayor at a news conference, said President Bush called and personally appealed for a mandatory evacuation for the low-lying city, which is prone to flooding.
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President Bush had ordered FEMA into place on 8/27 two full days before the hurricane and 3 before the levee was breached.
FEMA had pre-positioned 500 trucks of ice, 500 trucks of water and 350 of MRE's prior to the hurricane.
The mayor should have used these buses to start the mandatory evac before they went under water.
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