Help me find figures on number of evacuees from Lousiana.

[madfloridian]

I did a little checking to see about how many stayed behind, unable or unwilling to evacuate. Looks like about 97,000 to 100,000 stayed behind in New Orleans. Don't know about the surrounding areas. They always talk about the New Orleans area and St. Bernard Parish interchangeably so this is confusing.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1125454082610_27/?hub=CTVNewsAt11

"The city of 480,000 was mostly evacuated over the weekend as Katrina closed in, but some refused to leave -- or else they were too poor or sick to go on their own.

An estimated 40,000 homes in St. Bernard Parish, just east of New Orleans, are submerged, but other suburban areas, like Metarie, which is northwest of downtown New Orleans, are also underwater."

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2005/09/04/slow_response_exposes_holes_in_planning?mode=PF

"New Orleans authorities issued a mandatory evacuation order before the storm, but more than 100,000 people stayed. Emergency plans did not address that many were too poor or sick to get out without help, and there was no system for removing them. The plight of the New Orleans victims suggests that, even with advance warning of a terrorist strike, the homeland security system would have trouble evacuating a significant portion of those at risk."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200509120005

"While estimates of the number of residents stranded in New Orleans following the storm vary, New Orleans officials have suggested that 80 percent of the city's residents evacuated before the hurricane hit. That leaves roughly 97,000 residents who remained in New Orleans."

I just have not seen many figures about the number of evacuees. I have a feeling the death toll will be manipulated, so I am just curious. The 40,000 homes that were mentioned in earlier articles about being underwater has not been mentioned must lately.