Agree Mickie
There was at least a week when the mayor of NO and the Gov of LA could have lined up school buses, trains and tour buses to take ppl out of NO.
Where are all the school buses????
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Funny, FEMA lined up 500 busses in 36 hours
Not quite. The forecast models first showed a potential for a New Orleans hit on Friday afternoon. The NWS finally shifted their forecast late Friday, and first issued a hurricane watch on Saturday. By my calendar, that's under 3 days, and closer to 2.
Further, at that point, they didn't have a large site to put them (up until late Sunday, most of Louisiana was in the bullseye). There's a major difference between simply telling/ordering people to go and providing the means for them to go. Providing the means also implies that you'll take care of them. Now, they could have gotten a hold of the Texas governor to get the Astrodome or someplace else to use as an evacuation site, but that's now hindsight.
The NOLA school buses are all underwater.
FEMA commandeered buses from private companies - notably, ones with bathrooms on board.