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***......Nearly 500 buses were supposed to transport 25,000 people from the Superdome to the Astrodome.

But the first bus to arrive in Houston was not provided by FEMA. It was a yellow Orleans Parish school bus driven by an unidentified teenager.

He had stolen the bus, loaded it with family members and left ahead of the official caravan.

Initially, Texas officials refused to admit the school bus refugees to the Astrodome. Then a Red Cross official named Margaret O'Brien-Molina noticed the children aboard. She walked them in, holding the hand of a 5-year-old girl.

"That little girl, think about what she's been through the last few days," she explained.

Before the day was over, the Astrodome was full and freeway signs that had welcomed refugees were switched to a different message: "Houston shelters are full. Go to Dallas or San Antonio."........*** Source

Ben DeSoto / Chronicle A woman carries a child the final distance to shelter early today after a day's journey from New Orleans. A decision to close Houston's Reliant Astrodome to incoming refugees was reversed early Friday.

" They keep it up and there will be a huge backlash. " ... yup...
You got that right.

and the 2006 election is just around the corner.

If there is anyone to blame, blame the incompetent Mayor of NEW ORLEANS, and Governor of the State of Louisiana.
( by the way ? who's order, or brainy idea it was to build those electric generators for one of the hospitals under ground in NEW ORLEANS ?,,,, surely it was not President Bush's fault ).

They dragged their feet ( both of them ) and it took the President of the USA to get their butts into action to declare a state of emergency to evacuate those people BEFORE the hurricane hit ( which is something lost in this BLAME GAME of blaming President Bush, the Republicans, and white people ).

And the BIG excuse we are hearing " well, we are poor, and we could not evacuate " is just BS , if you can walk, GET OUT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS.
If you are able body, and can walk, what was stopping you to walk at least to the outskirts of the city were buses or some kind of transportation would have been ?

Also ? those people who had means to get out, i.e. cars. trucks, buses, cabs, trains, but ? WHO CHOSE TO STAY AND either: i.e. to have a HURRICANE PARTY, or ? TO WAIT IT OUT , or ? TO .. WAIT TO LOOT , do not have no excuse, they ignored the warnings to GET OUT OF DODGE.