School buses are uncomfortable and besides these buses are limited only to the "Vote Or Die" campaign on election day...
If each bus could transport 40 folks (maybe more), that would have been 7,600 folks moved out of harms way...and the trip only had to be about 10 miles northwest.
So...figuring 8 round trips per bus, that would have removed 60,800 folks from harm's way.
Not a bad effort....of course, it didn't happen.