[maryz]

Were these buses parked here when then could have been used to evacuate BEFORE Katrina hit too?

My sister told me she heard that buses were "made available" before the storm. I guess she heard it on the Weather Channel, which is what she's been watching. I don't know any more than that.

[Spktyr]

They were using the much smaller municipal bus fleet in NOLA before the storm. However, all they were doing was busing people to the Superdome and other (unspecified) shelters. Not the trainyards, not the interstate bus stations, not out of town, just to the Superdome.