Define "plenty".
I use myself as a typical example; I was first informed (by a phone call from a friend) on Saturday August 27, about 2pm. That would be at the most 40 hours before landfall. Is that enough time? Yes, if you're ready to drop everything, can get your family and pets and meds together, seal up your house and get things off the floor and away from windows and secure other vehciles, are made aware and have a way to get out. Just because you or I have all those things doesn't mean everyone does. Actually the first thing I did was arrange to take somebody else who had no way out. But again, I was in a position to do that; many were not in a position to be on either end.
Btw I don't know why you keep harping on this but no city is universally "5 feet below sea level"; elevations vary. Some parts are, other parts are above sea level. Just as in New York or Miami. Not that that had anything to do with flooding areas; the flooding you took depended not at all on your elevation, but how close you were to any of the seven levee breaches. My GF's apartment for example was in Mid-City, one of the higher elevations, and it took 8 feet of water. Where I lived uptown, it was only 2 feet and I had no damage.
And of course "no problem" means except for the fact that millions of other people are leaving at the same time and that puts you in a traffic lockup for hours -- hours which very much count among those 40 hours you have.
It's always entertaining to hear cheap fluff about "I would have done this, I would have done that" when there's not the remotest possibility of actually having to do it. Put that together with $4.62 and you have a cappuccino.
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