[Diddle E. Squat]

The state of Louisiana provided shelter in Baton Rouge and five other cities for a total of about 1,000.

I betcha dollars to donuts that this is a primary reason why buses were not used to ferry the carless out of NOLA, they never had agreed on a plan to set up shelters, other than some virtually meaningless document required for fed funding. Further, I bet one huge reason for that was that cities around the state balked at taking in all the 'problem demographics' from NOLA.

[ravinson]

I doubt they had many bus drivers available on 8/28. They were probably all skedaddling with the crooked cops and politicians.

[ASA Vet]

they never had agreed on a plan to set up shelters, other than some virtually meaningless document required for fed funding.

Here's the "virtually meaningless document"