Paul over at Wizbang looks at the evacuation of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast with a slightly different perspective than the mainstream media. I don’t know if I agree or not, but decided to post portions of it anyway for discussion’s sake.

Portions from The Katrina Evacuation: A Phenomenal Success:

With each passing day it is becoming increasingly clear that the evacuation of New Orleans was a phenomenal success.

To understand how I can say that, the first thing you need to do turn off the 24 hour cable news which is far more interested in "drama" than information.

Stop listening to the "experts" and use your own brain for a minute.

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Stop for a second and consider the task... We had to move a million people out of harms way in 48 hours... We only have 3 main roads out of town AND we had to wait to move until the people to the south of us got out first. - And as an added bonus, we didn't get to practice this a dozen times. We had a few dress rehearsals like Ivan but none like the size of this evacuation.

Could your home town evacuate (effectively) the whole city with 48 hours notice?

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If you step back and look at it realistically, New Orleans did the baseball equivalent of pitching a 1 hitter. The cable newies will focus on the one guy who got on base... Never forget the rest of the game.

The evacuation saved thousands of lives. Period.

 [Via Wizbang]