 At the last moment 90,000 bottles of water and 47,000 MRE's were secured by the Red Cross and delivered by the Louisiana National Guard which had initially about 150 members there preforming security duties. Both the supplies and the number of troops were grossly inadequate. Roughly 60,000-150 ,000  people did not evacuate from the city.
<coherence>  At the last moment 90,000 bottles of water and 47,000 MRE's were secured by the Red Cross and delivered by the Louisiana National Guard which had initially about 150 members there preforming security duties. Both the supplies and the number of troops were grossly inadequate. Roughly 60,000-150 ,000  people did not evacuate from the city.
 At the last moment 90,000 bottles of water and 47,000 MRE's were secured by the Red Cross and delivered by the Louisiana National Guard which had initially about 150 ,000 people did not evacuate from the city.