[TheForceOfOne]

You know, I keep a little bit of old newspaper laying around for things like eating steamed crabs and I went back and picked out the front section to my local paper from August 28 and in it was the warning of the pending hurricane Katrina. In a quote by Mayor Nagin he said

"The Superdome might be used as a shelter of last resort for people who have no cars, with city bus pickup points around New Orleans"

The point I would like to make from that quote is he intended to use the buses per his own statement and he didn't. Somewhere between that statement and the end result of the buses not being used a decision was made about the buses. These buses didn't just get overlooked as an escaped route for the people trapped in the city.

[mountainfolk]

I totally agree. IMO, investigating the non use of the buses, school and city, is essential for getting a handle on what has and is actually happening in La.