[ckilmer]

The Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan specifically stated that people without private transportation were to be transported on public buses. Here is the original post of the plan

There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.

At 70 people per bus that is 28,000 people per round trip that could have been taken out of the storm surge area in the 48 hours prior the Katrina striking.

After the storm hit, what makes you think that buses sent from outside of New Orleans could drive through the flooded mess any better than the 145 New Orleans city buses that were parked 1.2 miles away from the Superdome?

Was Scotty supposed to beam the outside buses to the Superdome and them beam them back out so that they would not have to drive through impassable roads?

The time to evacuate those 200,000 low-income people on public buses OUT OF THE STORM SURGE ZONE was BEFORE the Category 4 storm struck.

That was what the Southern Louisiana Evacuation Plan for New Orleans specifically called for.

The Democrat Governor and the Democrat Mayor did NOTHING to carry out that portion of the plan. They left 200,000 low-income resident abandoned and they now blame the Federal Government for not having Scotty beam down a massive logistics effort after a human disaster of their own making.

[Kay]

Good diagram and explanation.

[shield]

Oh come on' this was ALL POLITICAL...high powerful national dems were giving her instructions on how, what, when and where. This was all to make W look like an ineffective...leader...they're trying to make the GOP look like chit...and get their power back...

[faithincowboys]

You're so right, but the liberal media doesn't give a rip about the truth--- particularly when it implicates Democrats and liberalism.

[KC_Conspirator]

I totally agree with your post. There was a total abdication of responsibility and leadership by the mayor and governor. Until help arrived they could have at the minimum provided security and they failed at doing even that.

[dila813]

ditto, when will the obvious cause of these human deaths be realized?

[Nebullis]

Just for the record, the massive flooding in New Orleans was not caused by the storm surge. It was caused by water flow through levee breaches from Lake Pontchartrain.

And it's truly naive to expect local buses to move 1/3 of the city in less than 48 hours. Even assuming that everyone was standing and waiting at bus stations with important medicines and papers in hand.

[nopardons]

bttt

[pageonetoo]

There were not just "200 buses". There were 200 buses in just one photo and Freepers studying the post-Katrina satellite images have counted over 400 buses altogether at other city parking.

I contend that, with over 120 schools in NO, they should have had at least TEN per schooll, hence they should have had over a thousand busus available! Gross CRIMINAL incompetence!