No seatbelts for the chirrun? How could the busses be good enough for the chirrun but not good enough for the adults who were drowning.
Funny, I bet that never bothered them on election day.
Of course not, they're School Buses.
You have GOT be be kiddin' me, OldFriend!!!!
Did the the survivors in the commandeered and loaded bus that made it to Houston have any complaints?
If that's going to be Nagin's story. He's already climbed the gallows and stuck his neck in the noose.
Pull him out of the Toaster... He's done!
Jack.
One has to wonder how many of those school buses that, in the end, evacuated the citizens of New Orleans did have seat belts and or bathrooms?
It was a matter of life or death to get out of path of the storm. The mayor knew it! He thought it was a situation dire enough to send his own family out of the city on Saturday.
He knew it because the director of the National Weather Service, Max Mayfield, called Mayor Nagin at home on Saturday night to tell him that he must call a mandatory evacuation and to, as Mayor Nagan put it, "put the fear of God in me". Why then did Mayor Nagin wait until Sunday afternoon, LESS than 24 hours before the storm hit, to order the mandatory evacuation AND open the contraflow lanes to the west?
Mayor Nagin is responsible as is Governor Blanco and every politician from the parish level to the levee board.