[joinedafterattack]

The mayor's mandatory evacuation order was issued 20 hours before the storm struck the Louisiana coast, less than half the time researchers determined would be needed to get everyone out.

[Republican Red]

I like this story being written in a Houston paper. Maybe the effected people will get to see it.

[Malesherbes]

The mayor "strayed from strategy." Well, that's one way to put it.

[Pessimist]

"In the city of New Orleans alone, more than 100,000 of the city's residents described themselves as disabled in a recent U.S. census"

"Described themselves". I wonder if this self description has anything to do w/ eligibility for gvt support.

[Rutles4Ever]

City officials had 550 municipal buses and hundreds of additional school buses at their disposal but made no plans to use them to get people out of New Orleans before the storm, said Chester Wilmot, a civil engineering professor at Louisiana State University and an expert in transportation planning, who helped the city put together its evacuation plan.

Bombshell.

Absolute criminal negligence.

[Minnesocold]

Tami Frazier, a spokeswoman for Mayor C. Ray Nagin, currently working out of Houston, refused to comment on direct questions this week or to answer several written questions sent via e-mail.

[ajolympian2004]

The liberals in the main stream media are kicking and screaming as they are forced to cover the obvious stories of neglect by the local and state officials.

[bobsunshine]

This is a good story. Glad they got the parts about the buses and phone call from the National Hurricane Director correct.

[prognostigaator]

pass the buck.....^

[Sir Gawain]

Got a link?

[G.Mason]

Strayed?

Dogs stray.

I would submit that the elected officials of Louisiana are not as intelligent as dogs. Dogs usually come home.

Build their gallows high

[linkinpunk]

Planners decided not to use any of the New Orleans school buses for early evacuation, Wilmot said.

Bush's fault?

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

As the true facts emerge from the New Orleans flood waters, they will garner no more than a collective yawn from the MSM, dems and lefties.

[liberallarry]

This is a good article. Hopefully the paper will stay focused on the two prinicpal issues

1) Why weren't the 700 or so available buses used to transport people out of the city?
2) Why weren't state-wide, or region-wide plans, made to shelter those people?

A difficult third question must also be asked. It's quite clear that many of the people left in the city after the hurricane struck were not nice people. To what extent was this a factor in the search for shelters?

[Kylie_04]

Copies of this paper should be handed out at the various shelters set up in Houston...