[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

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wonderful!!!

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[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hot link to the posted article here:

Not much traction with the abuse (Wes Pruden Rocks!)

[Grampa Dave]

If the 2000 bus Figure is correct, 50 refugees per bus would equal 100,000 evacuated in one trip.

Thanks for the ping.