The mayor's failure to deploy the 3-400 schoolbuses that were available to help evacuate the needy will come back to haunt him. In my opinion, this was criminal negligence. How many people died because of this negligence?
Exactly.
Had the bus evacuation begun how many might have looked at a yellow caravan led by a patrol car with lights flashing and the message being put forth on the loudspeakers and thought "Hey, maybe there's something to this. Let's go"? A visible sign that the authorities considered this a serious situation could well have swayed many to board.
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Don't forget the 100 to 150 city buses left stting at the city bus barn that they mayor did have control over. No excuses for having to get permission to use city buses. The school and the city buses should have been running non-stop from Thursday night through Sunday night getting people out of harm's way.