Stranded In The Wake Of Disaster

Over 200,000 people without cars in New Orleans had no way out of the city in Katrina's wake.

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September 22, 2005, 6:00 AM PDT

By Brenda Meyer

"New Orleans is hardly the only place in such a predicament. Nearly 11 million households in the United States lack vehicles, according to the Census Bureau--which means that approximately 28 million people have difficulty evacuating their area in the event of an emergency. These people might take comfort in the vague reassurances of official disaster plans, such as the single sentence addressing the problem in New Orleans' Emergency Preparedness Guide: "Local transportation will be mobilized to assist persons who lack transportation." But they shouldn't."

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