A nice view of the famous school busses

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[RetroSexual]

Here's a link to a nice aerial image showing about 250 submerged school busses in New Orleans. The image is about 1.5 MB.

[texianyankee]

We aint riding in no skewl bus!

[Polybius]

I am sending the following email to as many media as I can. Copy and send if you have addresses.

Send them this too:

Louisiana Evacuation Plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Page 13, paragraph 5:

"5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating. "

[ol painless]

Those buses sure produced a nice oil slick.

[RetroSexual]

Those buses sure produced a nice oil slick.

I guess Nagin is not an environmentalist!

[kittymyrib]

Has anyone been able to also get a picture of the 360 city buses parked at the NO Transportation Authority garage? Along with hundreds of school buses, that would have been about all they needed to get the 42,000 evacuees out. Of course, where would they have put them? There were no stocked shelters set up elsewhere, or very few of them. I think the plan was not to have that many people survive...the beauty of the tsunami.

[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

Here are photos of both the city transit and school buses.

[konaice]

Damning evicence in those two photos.....

[GeorgiaYankee]

Junkyard Blog is the guy that found the photos and the Evac plan
FR thread here
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1476408/posts
go here for details
http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2005_08_28.html#004751


Here’s the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement,

http://www.ohsep.louisiana.gov/plans/EOPSupplement1a.pdf

most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

Photos of buses and estimate of how many could be evacced

http://junkyardblog.net/archives/week_2005_08_28.html#004752

With the improved resolution we count 255 buses in that one lot. That means at a capacity of 66 on board, 16,830 New Orleans residents could have been evacced out in one trip. Even if you have a lower capacity per bus, say 50 per bus, you're still getting nearly 13,000 out in one run. In an emergency mandatory evacuation, you could probably get away with putting more than 66 on each of those buses.

[ken5050]

Often unrealized factoid..ONE cubic yard of water weighs 1700 lbs....and when it's moving at 20-30 mph...and there are a few gazillion more behind it..well...

[JCEccles]

I suspect many looters had absolutely NO INTENTION of evacuating. On the contrary. They saw this as their one big opportunity.

[NCC-1701]

These two photos should be put on t-shirts and distributed in and around NOLA. The text could read somehting like, 250 UNUSED BUSSES times 50 passengers equal 12,500 potential evacuees moved to safety. WHY WEREN'T THEY? There are other FReepers who are better at verbage than I am. Heads should roll because of this. My bet is the nest ime one of these mosters set its sights on the same area, history will repeat itself. The after will be very interesting to see. How many heads WILL roll and who will they be?

[Travis McGee]

Add this damning photo to the others:

[Travis McGee]

Check the new Superdome/Buses photo above.

[NCC-1701]

That makes the whole thing even that much more damning.

[Rome2000]

None of these pics has come out in the MSM, including Fox news.

[SaintDismas]

Hmmmm, thats a great idea bout the t-shirt. Something simple like: WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?

[NCC-1701]

"...WHAT'S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?..."

That would work.

[DocRock]

Bookmarked for reference...

[voteconstitutionparty]

This news story from an Omaha TV station's web site puts the number of school busses left in New Orleans at 200.

http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/1819972.html

[RetroSexual]

They haven't done their homework. The image posted clearly shows between 250-260 buses. Some of them look a little peculiar from the air, like they might be under repair, so it depends on how you count.

A more diligent search will turn up several smaller yards throughout the city, each with dozens more. And, of course, there is the lot with hundreds of city buses.

But diligent searches are hardly the domain of the partisan press, are they?