[BenLurkin]

Excellent question.

It is hindsight of course but now it appears that the city should have gassed up every school bus and city vehicle and driven the elderly, the hospital patients, the poorest of the poor and everyone else they could squeeze on about one hundred miles or so west

[dfwgator]

What's shameful is that the thought of using those busses probably never entered into their minds.

[SJackson]

It is hindsight of course but now it appears that the city should have gassed up every school bus and city vehicle and driven the elderly, the hospital patients, the poorest of the poor and everyone else they could squeeze on about one hundred miles or so west

It's not hindsight. If terrorists can bring down the WTC they can breach a levee. City, State, and Federal officials claim to have been planning for nearly four years. It's inconceivable they didn't consider the possibility the city would be flooded. Perhaps without the weather and power grid problems on one hand, but on the other with a million plus population to deal without the opportunity to pre-evacuate. This was a failure, and unfortunately it will likely be politicized rather than corrected.