Evacuating New orleans.

Editor,
As Hurricane Michelle approached Havana in 2001, the entire population of the city, 1.5 million people, was evacuated to higher ground. No one died. No one was "left behind" (neocon mumbo-jumbo meaning "abandoned", "ignored", "perceived to be and treated as worthless").

Disaster preparedness is not a question of details. It is a question of priorties. Priorities drive details.