You don't have a car?

Well then you're shit out of luck in a disaster. Mojo features a great story here by Allison Stein Wellner on how evacuation plans around the US are predicated on YOU having a car to evacuate with...this of course leaves out the 23 million Americans who don't have cars...Is this a surprise? No. In the case of New Orleans, they were aware of this problem a full year in advance of Katrina. In Sep, 2004, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin held a press conference in which he stated he could not order a mandatory evacuation for Hurricane IVAN because he had no way of evacuating people without cars...(remember the buses)...what happens when a natural or not-so-natural disaster hits a city that hasn't thought out what would happen?...