If he had had the wisdom to move these busses - where would he have placed them; where was the high ground and when could they have been used to evacuate the city? No roads, bridges out, power lines down and no communication. The answer was to Get Out of Dodge early on - the media hype of these storms are in part to blame – they have sensationalized these storms over and over again; crying wolf too often left many unable to accept the very real possibility of the storm hitting just where it did and the flood warnings just went out the window. Interesting that most buildings along Canal and Bourbon streets are still standing……….there were no building codes in those days.
"If he had had the wisdom to move these busses - where would he have placed them; where was the high ground and when could they have been used to evacuate the city? No roads, bridges out, power lines down and no communication. The answer was to Get Out of Dodge early on"
You answered your own question.
That's an easy one. The buses could have been moved to the Superdome area which was apparently on higher ground.
If there was a disaster plan (I'm certain that our tax dollars helped pay for one, and I don't live in LA) that should have been addressed in it. This was hardly an unforseeable circumstance.
There are 4 parking garages around the Superdome that hold 5000 vehicles. And I also wonder why the Mass Transit buses weren't put there.
