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Originally Posted by Wolfpack
If they were, I highly doubt they were enough to handle the crowds that came. I had to laugh a little at the suggestion by the mayor that the Superdome was a place of "last resort". It's the biggest structure in the entire city. Consequently, people will go there because they know the odds are staggeringly high they won't be turned away like they would from a high school or something similar. There's (relatively speaking) plenty of space because, after all, it's designed to accomodate 75,000 people. (True, it was never meant to be housing, but I seriously doubt the people descending on the dome gave consideration to long-term possibilities.) It may have done the job had everything not gone to hell in a handbasket the day after the storm, forcing everyone to stay put.
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Well, to be fair, did you see the guy talking on Sunday about the Superdome? His quote that he kept having to say over and over again was to the effect that people need to remember that it was a refuge of last resort and while the future is a nice thing to think about, the only thing they could really plan for was trying to keep people alive through Tuesday morning.
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