Hell Has Frozen Over: NBC Nightly News is talking about the flooded school buses.

6 Sep 2005 | PhilipFreneau

[dfwgator]

FREEPERS WE ROCK!!!!!!

[uncitizen]

they could have got this info on their own, but they didn't.

Sure they can do the research that FReepers do, but then they wouldn't have enough time to meet to decide how to spin the news.

[carumba]

Send in the National Guard to drive those buses. Wait they were not under federal control. Send in the Marines. Apologize to the governor afterward.

[Not A Snowbird]

That's a very timid post. If the state and local government had been run by republicans, that same poster would be been screaming bloody murder.

[andyk]

Everyone knows that those buses were built from old Diebold voting machines,

hehehe

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Bush prevented the buses from moving so Halliburton could commandeer them and take them out of the city to keep poor black children out of school so when they grew up their only option would be to join the Army and get killed in Iraq.

[Travis McGee]

It worked!

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.

This is the equivalent of the media blaming the Titanic disaster on the slow arrival of the rescue ships, while totally ignoring the Titanic's lifeboat issue.

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.

[Not A Snowbird]

I think you've just about covered it. :-)

[Plutarch]

What is the timeline on the school bus photo? Could someone please provide a link to the initial FR post?

[Dog]

Who was the freeper?

[RegulatorCountry]

"One of those missed opportunities is the 200+ flooded school buses."

Did you see the reports over the weekend, that really played up the arrival of "air conditioned busses?"

I think this was a back-door attempt at providing a plausible reason for Nagin to have ignored his own city's evac plan by refusing to use school busses: air conditioning.

Yep, that A/C is cold comfort to the people who died in the meantime, "Mayor" Nagin. You could have gotten these people out early Saturday afternoon, when all the other surrounding parishes issued their evacuation orders. But no.

[Rightly Biased]

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[Morgan in Denver]

For what it's worth, Brit Hume on FNC's Special Report is nailing both Blanco and Nagin, LA governor and New Orleans mayor. Mara Liaison is back and initially tried to follow the MSM plan on blaming the feds, and thereby Bush, but was shot down by Charles Krauthammer and Fred Barns. Liaison jumped back in to save her credibility by saying nobody was faultless. Barnes said FEMA's only mistake was food and water to the Astro Dome, and Krauthammer explained FEMA was moving to the East of New Orleans since hurricane Katrina was moving that direction. Hume then pinned down the aspect of the fault belonging to first responders, i.e. New Orleans and the LA National Guard, meaning the governor.

Prior to all this, as Liaison was trying to put blame on FEMA the rest of the panel suggested there needs to be a national discussion as to who does what, but that FEMA is restricted as to their role and it is not that of first responders.

All in all, another better report than NBC does.

[The Red Zone]

Blind. Pig. Acorn.

[PhilipFreneau]

>> did the part in the brackets really refer specifically to the buses?)

Yes, and during a clip of the Mayor looking defensive.

[Rightly Biased]

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[Travis McGee]

Lisa Meyers has to be a series reporter, because she ain't making it because she looks like Miss America 1999, like the rest of the current info babes.

I mean that with all due respect, I'm sure she is a lovely person and so on.

[KStorm]

Now if the Detroit Lions win the SuperBowl, I'll really know the world is about to come to an end.

The world won't end, but the Sporting News has them winning the NFC North with a 10-6 record. That translates to the earth's axis tilting southward by 11 degrees.

[b4its2late]

[Dog]

Travis ...mark my words the calls for the Katrina Commission will fizzle now that questions are being asked about those buses and the emergency plan being igmored.