[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I heard it reported from at least two sources, that New Orleans had legitimate access to approximately 2000 buses... All of them in the Metropolitan Area.

NOT the estimated 400 to 600 buses we've been talking about..

If proved true -- this will be an 81mm coming in through the bunker's smoke hole for the Democrat bitchers...

2000 buses x 60 evacuees per bus = 120,000 EACH TRIP!

As soon as I can find hard copy confirmation, I'll post.

Ping some of us, that will be a great find!

[river rat]

Only if I get something more reliable than "xxxx said", etc...

Semper Fi

[river rat]

2000 buses mentioned in something a little more substantial than "verbal"...

They are mentioned in the Washington Times column by Pruden.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050906-122931-2126r.htm

The article was posted at FreeRepublic on the 5th.... Don't know how we missed it.... This is the Paragraph -- where the 2000 figure is mentioned.

".......in the early hours after Katrina loosed the deluge on the city that care and good judgment forgot. Ray Nagin, the mayor, ordered a "mandatory" evacuation a day late, but kept the city's 2,000 school buses parked and locked in neat rows when there was still time to take the refugees to higher ground. The bright-yellow buses sit ruined now in four feet of dirty water. Then the governor, Kathleen Blanco, resisted early pleas to declare martial law, and her dithering opened the way for looters, rapists and killers to make New Orleans an unholy hell. Gov. Haley Barbour did not hesitate in neighboring Mississippi, and looters, rapists and killers have not turned the streets of Gulfport and Biloxi into killing fields.

Semper Fi