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As for the buses you have to remember that members of the police force are only paid $10.00 and hour and the school bus drivers are paid even less.

Finally, the people that stayed in their homes choose not to leave knowing they would be looted by neighbors

Well, looks like you guys got your money's worth. Sometimes people (like policemen and school bus drivers) just have to do the right thing. Or at least should. Apparently that's an impossibility in New Orleans. The pay rate of school bus drivers is irrelevant since your mayor never ordered the buses be used. A nineteen year old kid took a bus, filled it with victims and drove it to Houston. When he was asked "why" he said he couldn't just sit there and do nothing. That kid did the right thing. Apparently many in your local police force and your bus drivers couldn't, or more likely, wouldn't.

BTW, that same corrupt leadership that has existed in Louisiana for years fought tooth and nail to keep the Feds out. What a difference a few days make. Now they're bi!ching that the Feds didn't get there soon enough. And I've never mentioned political parties in any of my posts.

Lastly, on what basis do you free the US Army Corps of Engineers of responsibility of the Levees?

I never said that. I said a local levee commission, in my opinion, misused funds on nonessentials and all you did was chastise me for calling it by an incorrect name and telling me that in all the years you've lived in New Orleans you'd never heard of it. In fact you implied that I apparently did not know how to use Google. When I corrected myself, and used the proper name, you never responded to my original allegation.

And finally...

A million people evacuated in less than 48 hours will be seen as the great sucess of the local governments.

Perhaps that's true but that will be revisionist history when looked at in the context of how many more could have gotten out but didn't because of poor planning.

I mentioned earlier that local authorities knew that even though the Superdome was a place of last resort, there would be thousands showing up there. You've never answered why they didn't think to put any provisions there whatsoever during the days leading up to the storm hitting.

Perhaps it was because the truck drivers don't make enough money either.

First of all you said the New Orleans Levee Commission. That organization does not exist but Orleans Parish does have a levee board. Now the Mayor or New Orleans was no jurisdiction over the Parish Levee Board not does he have power over the Orleans Parish School buses

I do not think the City of New Orleans has fought to keep the Feds out since 1864. I am not sure the Mayor was in power back then.

As for integration the neighborhood where I grew up was integrated since the 1930's and still is. New Orleans did not need the Feds to tell it how to integrate.

As for the provisions in the Superdome I have wondered why there were none there. But I would look to FEMA who in 2001 listed a hurricane in NOLA as one of the top three disasters the NATION faced.

Where was FEMA?