500-700 buses, 50 people on each bus. 25,000-35,000 evacuated leaving 100,000 behind. I'm sure you would be happy to tell us who were going to go first and explain the ensuing riots that would have occurred at the pickup location
Yeah, I guess it's impossible for each bus to make multiple trips. Are they busing them to Alaska?
four round trips to the cities just north of N.O. and no one is left behind.....
Might as well not use the buses then...Ughhh.
Women, children and minorities first since they always suffer most in a catastrophe or disaster...
"I'm sure you would be happy to tell us who were going to go first..."
Allow Me. First Come, First Served.
Riots? Like there weren't any?! It was called looting, in this case.
So in your mind, the buses are knee-deep in water, and this is how you think it should be. In your mind, no attempt should have been made to use them to rescue the people who are now dead, because they might have been killed or injured in a "possible" riot.
Why doi you imagine a riot, when the people were not even alarmed enough to walk or ride a bicycle to higher ground?
The evacuation should have been mandatory.
In your mind, the buses could not have made multiple trips in the days preceding the hurricane's arrival.
In your mind, it was not worth the risk in lives to attempt to recue them. Therefore, instead of possibly being saved, they are now 100% dead.
Are you unaware that New Orleans' own guidebook required using public transportation for evacuation purposes? Would you object to using the buses to rescue the invalids, or would that pose too much of a "danger" for your tastes?
And if the police were not so busy throwing down their badges and looting the local Wal-Mart, perhaps they could have helped keep order.
Make several trips in those busses. Everyone knew that Katrina was a massive storm. NOLA had time to get the job done. And I am sure they could have requested more transportation.
It was 2000 buses.
2000 x 50 = 100,000
Two(2) runs would have been enough to evacuate ALL of them.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478502/posts
Didn't you hear?
Nagin said, just lately, that he sent buses with sirens and cops through the neighborhoods to evacuate people.
Did you hear about any resulting riots at the pickup locations? I haven't.
Anyway....If they started evacuating early enough before the storm, why would there have been riots?
Of course you're right.
It was better to leave them all there since there were no problems with doing that.
I understand they held church services in Thanksgiving for being saved from the storm after it passed.