Hey, Snopes, is this an urban legend, too?
Posted on 09/08/2005 7:09:32 AM PDT by BlackRain
School Buses
Claim: Photograph shows school buses caught in a flooded New Orleans parking lot.
Status: True.
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There is a fortune there with brackish/salt water eating away in crankcases, transmissions, and differentials, and repairing or replacing that fleet will cost a grundle.
Relocating the busses to higher ground would have had them available later if something did go wrong.
It seems as if these unimaginative jerks are incapable of planning for a disaster as well as carrying out any plans they may have had.
Of course, if the left wing moonbat mayor and governor had not dropped the ball on their end exacerbating the crisis, those people could have at least begun to be moved before they were caught by rising flood waters. They failed miserably at implementing their already in place plan of evacuation. I strongly suspect we here in Texas were preparing to accept evacuees without the necessity of being told to do so by the federal government.
If the local government is run by effective leaders, arrangements will be made to insure that these things are present. If the local government is run by incompetent buffons, then the buses will just sit there and get flooded.
(There's no guarantee that all the buses shown in this picture were even in working condition.)
Well, they obviously aren't in working condition now. If an unusual number of them weren't in working condition before the storm reached land, that's yet another city snafu.
And, given the particular geography of New Orleans, any such evacuation would have had to have begun well in advance of Hurricane Katrina to avoid exposing residents to the potential danger of being stuck in buses on traffic-clogged roads in the path of an approaching hurricane.
Hmmmm.... somebody them rocket scientists could put up one of those "satellite" things so we can see them hurricanes out in the Gulf and get a couple days' warning before they hit. Maybe the Feds could set up an agency for that.
I never said he wasn't responsible, and I'm not making excuses, just suggesting some reasons. I'm sorry you can't tell the difference.
Actually, I have been busy, but I just now reviewed it.
I don't think we'll ever know.
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Any chance of getting a copy?
I agree on the droppage.
Driving those buses...probably required union labor...at overtime rates...and I doubt if the city had the money or the willpower to make that happen.
If you are not being sarcastic, that may quite well be true.
>>where would they have taken all of those people? <<
Baton Rouge or any one of a number of places would have been a start. There were shelters set up in other cities and were accessible by outside agencies and private organizations.
Quite true, but there were a lot of buses, and a lot of people.
Nagin wanted Greyhound coaches. Can't remember the Nagin statement about having fleets of them converge on NO to
transport people in comfort.
Hmmm, take the yellow school bus or drown while depending on Nagin?
Choices, choices, choices.
Oh, that's easy. There will be little-to-no [city] provided transportion out of the "bowl".
OR they would have identified volunteers before hand to drive the buses, they could have put the NG on them, there were a thousand solutions but none of them were even attempted.
Sorry, but that is plainly bullcrap.
When a Cat 5 storm is a hundred miles away from a below-sea-level city, you get in the damn buses and drive inland until you find a safe place to stay or until the fuel runs out. That is all.
-ccm
It seems that kind of thinking would have left them in their homes to drown if applied to the original decision to take them to the Superdome. "If they had used the school buses to evacuate taken people of the ninth ward to the Superdome, where would they have taken all of those people what would they eat or drink?? Do you just drive them out of town to the Superdome and leave them somewhere there? No."
Just as taking them to the Superdome was better than letting them drown in their homes, taking them out of town would have been better than leaving them in the Superdome for five days. The failure wasn't in acting, it was in failure to follow up the original plan. Even after the levee broke, the city was not totally flooded until about a day later. They had plenty of time to take the buses to the Superdome and out of town before it flooded. Heck, they could have even taken them to the high ground in the other part of the town that wasn't flooded.
As for a lack of drivers, Blanco could've had the National Guard on standby to drive the buses.
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