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Originally posted by ironweed
Don't get all defensive. Here's a disaster plan - mobilize the National Guard, whatever part of our Army, Air Force and Marines that's still here, and commandeer every bus, truck, van, boat and Vespa scooter you can find. Load it will bottled water and slim jims. Drive it to NO. Drop off the food, pick up as many people as you can carry. Repeat as necessary. Do this two days ago. Sounds dumb, right? Insufficient consideration for adverse conditions, cost, etc. Believe me, if there was a will, there would be a way.

Looks like some college students managed to do it in a Hyundai.

• A trio of Duke University sophomores say they drove to New Orleans late last week, posed as journalists to slip inside the hurricane-soaked city twice, and evacuated seven people who weren't receiving help from authorities.
  
  The group, led by South Carolina native Sonny Byrd, say they also managed to drive all the way to the New Orleans Convention Center, where they encountered scenes early Saturday evening that they say were disgraceful.
  
  "We found it absolutely incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days, that they didn't go in and help these people, and we made it in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder.