Even FedX buses could have been used to save lives, their parking lot looks just like the school bus one! Nobody used any initiative - except for Jabbar Gibson!
But where would Governor Blanco & Mayor Nadin find drivers for all of those big empty idle Fed-Ex trucks & vans in New Orleans?
One FReeper earlier mentioned that when they have flooding in upper NY state - they just load them into the back of big dump trucks and drive them thru the deep water to safety.
They use huge dump trucks for spreading sand/salt up there with big snow blades on the front to keep the thruways cleared as soon as the first snowflakes start to fall.
Canada is even better at it.