There is no excuse for that at all. Anyone connected with the city government, should be jailed...
The final scenes are playing out now; predictable, classless, and obnoxious as ever. C-Span had the NAACP leaders on. Arms folded, angry faces abound, heads tilted back, with the leader attempting to read from a script, featuring four misprounced and made up words per sentence. (to be sure he has an extensive criminal record and the obligatory 4 children with 4 different women). The theme of course is screaming 'bout white racism toward our peeples". I would have used a split screen showing the siege of predatory black thieves, murderers and rapists on the other side. The last phase to come in this cycle will be the 2008 election battlecry, "New Orlins, nevva fahget."
The buses are all ready for school to start. Wouldn't want to take a chance messing them up using them to evacuate people who would just have to be brought back after the storm missed.
And they'd all be mad at you, the mayor. Can't have that, because being mayor of N.O. is a pretty good job.