No one knows how many people we stuck on their rooftops after Hurricane Katrina and the breach of the levees in New Orleans. At first it was thought hundreds, then thousands, but by the second day over 3500 people were fished out of the New Orleans fish bowl. By the third day there were still thousands still on their rooftops. Everyone was ordered to evacuate some 200,000 stayed. Thirty thousand went to the Superdome from protection of the storm.

Many of those being rescued from their rooftops did not heed warning to leave the city or go to the Superdome as directed. Is that fair to the rescuers who are working non-stop and taking risks to rescue these folks. It is costly to rescue these people when efforts are needed in other areas.

Should we have a fee of one thousand dollars to rescue people if people fail to leave an area when mandatory evacuation is ordered? One person suggested that those rescued after being told to evacuate previously be rescued and taken to a work camp to pay off their $1,000.00 fee if they cannot pay it.

There is no good excuse for not evacuating, prior to the storm the police department was giving rides to the superdome as an evacuation point. The President of the United States got on the TV and announced to everyone to get out. If that eye-wall had not been reforming as that Hurricane Katrina hit land and had the Hurricane been 20-miles West, all 200,000 people who failed to evacuate would have died. There is a reason that mandatory evacuations are made. We need to make it a little more mandatory so people understand. It is not right for taxpayer