"One of those missed opportunities is the 200+ flooded school buses."
Did you see the reports over the weekend, that really played up the arrival of "air conditioned busses?"
I think this was a back-door attempt at providing a plausible reason for Nagin to have ignored his own city's evac plan by refusing to use school busses: air conditioning.
Yep, that A/C is cold comfort to the people who died in the meantime, "Mayor" Nagin. You could have gotten these people out early Saturday afternoon, when all the other surrounding parishes issued their evacuation orders. But no.
Also are those school buses really sans a/c? They would become unbearable in midafternoon in the Louisiana heat as they wait for school to dismiss.
I am quite sure if they asked the people stranded in New Orleans if they would have rather been put on a hot school bus and driven 200 miles north of New Orleans and let out on the side of the road OR left in the New Orleans, they would all pick the former.