Found this bit from 9/14/04.
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/hurricane/2004-09-14-new-orleans-storm_x .htm
"They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," said Latonia Hill, 57, who lives on a disability check and money she picks up cleaning houses or baby sitting. "If I can't walk it or get there on the bus, I don't go. I don't got a car. My daughter don't either."