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mandatory evacuations were not ordered, due to needing to make sure litigations would not happen if it didn't hit, according to Ray Nagin, then mayor, until Sunday when the storm actually starting affecting New Orleans late that day. Way to late to really get people out and no real help was supplied by him to get them out. It states it is 1 day before it was issued, yet does not mention the facts that her arrival was heralded by rains and winds and surge much less than 1 day before. The eye came in during the early morning hours of the 29th. The winds, rain and surge began arriving before that.
Landfall is when the actually eye touches land. Her wind swath was massive as well as her storm surge which began pushing in before her eye ever touched land.
Sunday 28 August 2005 - 1 day before
10.00 AM CDT: NOLA: Mandatory Evacuation
Mayor Nagin orders mandatory evacuation, the first in the history of the city. "We are facing a storm that most of us have feared. I don't want to create panic, but I do want the citizens to understand that this is very serious, and it is of the highest nature." (CNN)
Landfall is when the actually eye touches land. Her wind swath was massive as well as her storm surge which began pushing in before her eye ever touched land.