[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.

[perfect stranger]

bttt

[Travis McGee]

Please see the info and three New Orleans bus photos above at #7.

Analogy: imagine the media covering the Titanic sinking, and focusing on the slow rescue, but never ever mentioning the lifeboat issue.

It's amazing that the media has either "overlooked" (or is spiking) the fact that New Orleans' own emergency management plan called for them to use their 100s of transit and school buses to evacuate the poor.

But they simply forgot to open their emergency plan, forgot their buses, and stranded thousands in hell holes like the Superdome without food or water.

[Freee-dame]

Please send these pictures to all the major media outlets. At least then, they won't be able to say that they were unaware of the bus situation in NO.

[BIRDS]

Excellent graphics. Is it alright to reprint elsewhere?

[leadpenny]

Nice work.

I've seen the pic of the school bus lot but this is the first I've seen the metro bus lot.

If the mayor had an ounce of honor he would have already resigned.