According to CNN, the mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, has said:
“The city basically sits like a bowl and most of the city is under sea level … so if we get a storm like Ivan to hit us directly” there could be 12 to 18 feet of water in the city. If people can’t get out of New Orleans, the mayor said, they should do a “vertical evacuation.”
By this, he means that residents that can’t get out of the city should “Basically, go to hotels and high-rise buildings in the city”
Now, I’ve been to New Orleans. I’ve been in the Sheraton New Orleans. Yeah, I’d really want to ride out a Cat 4 Hurricane on the 44th floor of a high-rise, likely with no power and no way to get out when the French Quarter floods.
That would certainly cause me to evacuate. As ellipticcurve said when I told her about this, “hurq”.
