Michael Brown: also a horse's ass

FEMA director Michael Brown, in a CNN interview:

...to help those who are stranded, who chose not to evacuate, who chose not to leave the city...

This from a 2002 study by Louisiana State University (being in the industry, I know they know what they're talking about):

The highways are exposed to the effects of hurricane winds and floods, and must be shut down to traffic many hours before a hurricane actually reaches the vicinity of the city. It is estimated that about two hundred thousand people living in the city do not have automobiles or access to an automobile. Approximately 20,000 people have special needs and cannot be easily moved. Finally, there are several thousand more people that will choose not to evacuate because of difficulty of actually evacuating and of finding suitable shelters (Suhayda, Aravamuthan, & Korevec, 2001).

Like I said. Ass.