[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for posting this. Now it will not be revised or deleted by someone in N O's or La.. Travis Mcgee on an earlier reply on another thread has provided the coffin for the mayor and other in N O's who try to blame our president.

I hope that sooner or later the MSM discovers that New Orleans did have a written emergency plan to cover the evacuation of the poor, but that the idiot mayor of New Orleans ignored it, and allowed the evacuation buses to be ruined by the flood, forgotten.

The city leaders had at least two full days to use these hundreds of buses to evac the poor, exactly as their own emergency management plan called for.

Here's the southeast Louisiana evac plan supplement, most recently revised in 2000. Go to page 13, read paragraph 5. It states:

5. The primary means of hurricane evacuation will be personal vehicles. School and municipal buses, government-owned vehicles and vehicles provided by volunteer agencies may be used to provide transportation for individuals who lack transportation and require assistance in evacuating.

48 posted on 09/04/2005 9:13:43 AM PDT by Travis McGee (--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)

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[Cindy]

Thank you Grampa Dave for the ping.
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nwctwx,gozilla: ping.

[dufekin]

Note the key word "may," which in this case more precisely means "might but probably won't." "May" always expresses a possibility, not a definitive. Let's read clause 5 again:

"School and municipal buses ... may [i.e., "might but probably won't"] be used [by whom? well, no one knows...] to provide transportation..."

[planekT]

Hey Grampa

Here's the genius Mayor of NO springing into action in a rant after the fact that his busses were Mary Jo'd.

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Nagin: "I need 500 buses, man. We ain't talking about -- you know, one of the briefings we had, they were talking about getting public school bus drivers to come down here and bus people out here. I'm like, “You got to be kidding me. This is a national disaster. Get every doggone Greyhound bus line in the country and get their asses moving to New Orleans."

Rest of the transcript here: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/

[devolve]

20-YR-OLD JABBAR GIBSON RESCUES 70 VICTIMS

BY DRIVING THEM 315 MILES TO HOUSTON TEXAS

                 

WHILE OVER 600 SCHOOL BUSES WERE IGNORED

BY LA GOVERNOR BLANCO & NO MAYOR NAGIN

[Travis McGee]

I can't believe the buses are not a huge national topic by now!

Shows the power of the MSM to ignore news when it goes against their bias.

[abigailsmybaby]

That answered my questioned. I wondered why Nagin hadn't evacuated the people that had no means to evacuate themselves. I've just been livid with him blaming everybody but himself.

He should know better than anybody how many people in "his" city couldn't evac themselves and should have been putting them on school buses, Greyhound buses, taxi cabs, horse and buggies, horseback...jackasses. Anything to get them out.