If Someone Will Run a Newspaper Page in Baton Rouge Showing All The Buses, I will Pay for it.

vanity ^ | 9-4-05 | joinedafterattack

[joinedafterattack]

If Someone Will Run a Newspaper Page in Baton Rouge Showing All The Buses, I will Pay for it. Write me if you have the ability to compose and submit the ad.
joinedafterattack@msn.com write me and let me know if you can pull this off.

[Budge]

If anyone can write the copy, Congressman Billybob can!

[BJungNan]

Is there a link and a story behind the picture of the kid that "took" the bus to rescue people?

[Issaquahking]

Here you go... LINK HERE

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

Thank you very much. Some people here just don't believe it. I didn't ever until I saw this.

Thank you

[Budge]

I saw on a post here on FR yesterday, complete with link (I think to a LA newspaper) that stated the number of school and public transit busses alone totaled either 569 or 589, somewhere in that number.

I wish I would have bookmarked it, perhaps someone else remembers which thread it was.

[trussell]

We can't cower in fear that everything we say will be taken wrong by the MSM...that is how we use to be...we need to learn to raise our voice and be heard! We use to be the silent majority, now we are becoming very outspoken!!

[JohnBovenmyer]

Nagin didn't want to use school buses without bathrooms. Now I suppose he'll blame Bush for the suffering in the bathroom-less private cars that did get out out of town. I wonder if the Mayor's family, who evacuated early, did so in a bathroom equipped vehicle.

[El Gato]

There's around 400 buses in those 3 sites. Some are the larger "flat faced" buses, others are the "regular" type school buses. Still using 66 people per bus (and I'll bet you could put a few more, maybe a dozen in the aisles.

I once rode in the aisle, mostly sitting on a wooden ammo box, from Lincoln to North Platte Nebraska, and part of the way back sitting on the "step down" to the driver's level from the passenger level. It was an older "Greyhound type" bus. (by older I mean older in '67, today it would ancient) The only reason I didn't have to ride all the way back was that the assistant coach took pity on me, and took the floor himself for about 1/2 the way back. (It was cold down there, temperature at game time at been around 20 F in North Platte) Thats about 230 miles one way, and we went, lost a football game, ate supper, and drove back with no overnight stay in North Platte.

IIRC, that bus didn't have a head either, and I don't recall stopping anywhere along the way. I guess we might have driven partway before having supper. Since I tried to forget, it's amazing I can remember it all after all these years. :)

Houston is about 350 miles, but Red Stick (Baton Rouge) is only about 80, while Ft. Polk is under 270 miles. The two other than Ft. Polk are all interstate travel, so you could really move once you cleared the city.

[El Gato]

And the Army could have put up a tent city in 24 hours to provide shelter, hospitals, sanitation, etc.

I doubt the Army could have, but the La or Tx National Guard could have. They are more equiped for such contingencies than most active Army units.

One bridge across the Mississippi remained open even after the hurricane

Yea, and that one was withing walking distance of both the Dome and the Convention Center. It's practically adjacent to the Convention center. All the able bodied could have evacuated themselves, leaving those buses to only evacuate the aged, infirm and the sick.

They would have had to start walking either before the storm hit, or afterwards when the water first started rising. Once those levees failed, the city had to know that the water would not stop rising until it reached the level of the Lake, leaving some places under 20 feet of water, others "only" under 5 to 10 feet. (IIRC the convention center area was (not very) high and dry.

I think I would have recommened making the hike Monday or Tuesday night. Less heat stress at night. But then someone would have had to accompany them to provide some light... unless it was clear of course, then starlight and moonlight would suffice.

[theDentist]

Not cowering in fear, just being cautious.

[ladyinred]

Perhaps show people that it isn't Bush's fault of course.

[BJungNan]

Thanks!

[rolling_stone]

Nagin said it was because they didn't have toilets.

I doubt many of the thousands of cars that left NO had toilets either...is he that stupid? (never mind)

[rolling_stone]

I wonder if Nagin rode the short bus to school when he was a kid...

[msnimje]

I'd like a minute-by-minute summary of just what Blanco and Nagin did this past week

They are sucking their thumbs and rocking back and forth while sitting in the corner on the floor.

[Prime Choice]

If Registered is not available try Prime Choice. They are both brilliant.

Thanks for the kind words.

Per the discussion at hand, here's a parody I just released.

And now I'm off to bed before I collapse...

[CARDINALRULES]

I wondered if that would be one of his pathetic excuses.

One very small bathroom with a very small doorway, yeah that would have really helped.

I wonder if this clueless mayor has ever been on a Greyhound bus.

They don't really expect every passenger to need to use the bathroom, that's one of the reasons they stop at some places for 10-15 minutes (also to let people smoke or get something to eat.

The one time I rode GH I never used it but waited for the stations or stops.

Besides the toilets are basically just porta-potties in a closet. Most layovers are at least 45 minutes in order for them to clean the bus and empty the tank.