[milagro]

This picture has been haunting me since I first saw it. I have posted several times--why were not these buses--and any other means of large transport--at the READY for evacuating people on Saturday--before the storm hit? If I had that thought the minute I saw this picture--why couldn't have a responsible city official had it before? I am no genius--and know nothing about running a city--but common sense says you use what you have available in the most effective, responsible--and yes CREATIVE-- ways.

It might have cost the city a few bucks to pay people to mobilize these buses and stage them throughout the poorest sections of NO--but think of the savings in human lives!

[Jeff Head]

Thse busses were at the ready. Absent the storm, they would have been used THE NEXT MORNING to bus many more kids than what people were in the dome all over New Orleans.

It is an abject failure and ineptitude that has led to untold suffering and loss of life...none of which is remotely the fault of the Bush administration or the federal agencies.

[Kryptonite]

The sad thing is that even if every bus was lined up in neighborhoods throughout NO, many, many people still would have insisted on staying to weather the storm in their own residences.

And the MSM would be showing their plight instead of showing the smarter folks being safe and sound, albeit just as homeless, just as it is doing now.