[Travis McGee]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

[cyborg]

Makes me sad when I see those pics.

[MizSterious]

Somewhere, there should be more pics of parked city buses. There are several "bus barns" in the city, and literally hundreds of buses. NO had one of the best public transportation systems I've seen in any city, except possibly San Francisco and New York.

[Squantos]

I count 200 plus buses in one pic alone....lets say 10% were down for maintenance. Fill em up and head for east , west and northern destinations as far as fuel allows and find shelters. If I'm not mistaken those would hold 40 plus people each, that's just one shool parking lot in the area.

8000 folks minimum saved per parking lot. Add the city transit system busses etc etc . I would add that any such future storm or impending crisis clearly predicted should warrant the immediate closure of inbound traffic on the Interstates and make all lanes available outbound. Seems a lot of folks could have been saved if "any plan" was allowed to proceed....improvised or not.

[SandRat]

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

Nope don't think it will happen unless FR forces it. Revealing that would be good for Pres. Bush and bad for every LIBERAL/LEFTIST/DEMOCRAT/SOCIALIST/PINKO SOB around the globe and that includes the MSM.

[janetgreen]

What a sad situation that those buses were sitting there and not used. The "Mayor" has lots of 'splainin to do, but of course the damage is already done.

Hopefully this will point out the importance of electing responsible people to city and state governments. A good example is in California, where it seems that people are elected on the basis of name recognition and/or ethnicity only, with no thought of whether that person is qualified to do the job or act in an emergency situation.

Many people won't even take ten minutes to try to investigate the person they're voting for, even in this age of easily accessible information.