[najida]

What about SCHOOL buses!
The transit buses,
all the State, Railroad vehicles, ambulances etc...
Even the DOA trucks, fercryinoutloud!

Don't get me started.

ACK!

Just Damn

[tfecw]

I agree with ya :)

In a round about way i was basically trying to say "If you wanted to get out of NO, it could have easily been done"

[Tunehead54]

What about SCHOOL buses!

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Dahlin! School buses do not have cloth-covered reclining seats with a john or two in the back. The mayor couldn't possible force them into such a degrading mode of transportation.

BTW - at a small high school I went to out west - we'd take the whole school on a five to seven day "Caravan" in cattle trucks. We'd throw in our sleeping bags and duffels and then a tarp over those to sit on.

At "comfort stops" it was simply girls to the right, boys to the left (Guys had to cross the road). We did fine - in fact Caravan was the most anticipated time of year.

Naturally the school has had to dump the cattle trucks - no seat belts I guess ... still I've got great memories! ;-)

[SauronOfMordor]

I think a prior ACLU lawsuit (relating to last year's hurricane, I think) had it being the case that an evacuation order created an obligation to provide transport, and evacuating people using government transport created a legal obligation to provide shelter at the destination

So it just created less hassle for the bureaucrats to not issue evacuation orders, and not provide transport

[SauronOfMordor]

Here's the article from Sept 19, 2004, after Hurricane Ivan:

"They say evacuate, but they don't say how I'm supposed to do that," Latonya Hill, 57, said at the time. "If I can't walk it or get there on the bus, I don't go. I don't got a car. My daughter don't either."

Advocates for the poor were indignant.

"If the government asks people to evacuate, the government has some responsibility to provide an option for those people who can't evacuate and are at the whim of Mother Nature," said Joe Cook of the New Orleans ACLU.

Thanks, Joe. For fear of having to deal with you, the City of New Orleans chose to do nothing at all until the last minute, and thousands are now dead