I am listening to the scanner - the bus convoy has just started rolling. I would imagine that we will see some video of this today - it sounds like they have 500 buses ready to go in one by one.
According to the local Houston TV stations the first buses have started to arrive at the Astrodome. The actual first bus was one they did not expect. It was a school bus that a group had commandeered and driven to Houston. The driver said that the police told him to take it. My feeling is that they just basically took the thing. The Red Cross folks at the Astrodome seemed perplexed as to what to do. My feeling is that if the TV cameras had not been on, a lot more difficult questions would have been asked. I fear our first guests in the Astrodome are probably some of the looter scum we have been seeing on TV.