They could have coordinated with other cities like Alexandria, Shreveport, Lafayette, etc to use their school and city buses and shuttled people from NO to BR then picked up from there and the other cities busses take them to the designated shelters. That is of course if there would have been a plan to impliment.
Completely agree.
I need to run. Placemark & prayers.
There were probably enough school buses in the metropolitan area itself to do the job - buses that are now probably mostly totaled by wind damage or flooding.