[Buckhead]

That's quite amazing. Evidently, when Nagin was asked about the buses yesterday he said "No Comment." Wonder what the head of the School Board has to say. BushCountry posted an overhead photograph of maybe 50-60 dry buses on the west bank that had a completely dry route to the Superdome and could have been used for evacuation from there the whole time they were cursing and screaming about the Feds not picking them up. See post 80 in this thread. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1478896/posts. They look like yellow school buses. Here's the image:

[angkor]

Wonder what the head of the School Board has to say.

Several Board officials actually involved in the negotiations are named in the minutes, e.g.:

"Ms. Bowers: We have been meeting with City entities about the hurricane preparedness and we have talked to them about our buses. .... Benita Cochran and the head of transportation and the head of Security have been participating in these meetings, too."

Perhaps some enterprising reporter will ask them what happened. Why the dithering?

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks to Paleo Conservative for compiling this sequence of very damning photos:

[Grampa Dave]

Travis McGee in an earlier reply to another thread has provided the coffin and wooden stake to handle the soon to be former mayor of N O's.

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.

48 posted on 09/04/2005 9:13:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)

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[TaxRelief]

New Orleans Public Schools has admitted that they put their employees ahead of the citizens of New Orleans.

[Coleus]

what's the story about Nagin sending buses after the hurricane to the Hyatt Hotel first to rescue the white tourists? I heard of it but can't find any articles about it.