Posted on 09/03/2005 6:39:25 AM PDT by ChadGore
In this short video (Real Media 34k stream). . at the very begining . . the 2nd sceen, shows yet another dozen unused blanco buses!
The print story is here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4210646.stm
Under the first image is a link that says "VIDEO Aid Finally arrives".
The URI for the RV Video is here:
Amazing . .really . .when you think about it.
The way I see it . .you can work the numbers 2 ways.
1) Assume the manditory evacuation was given by the gov on Friday when it should have. This would leave us with all day Friday, all day Saturday, and all day Sunday for these unused busses to run.
2) Assume the late reaction that really happened, which yields only Saturday and Sunday.
A kid was interviewed on Fox last night who had commandeered a school bus from the lot. He put 70 people in his bus and took them to Houston. Had to fill up two-three times, and the people on the bus chipped in for the gas.
What will the spin be on these photos? Maybe with Bush's evil underfunding of No Child Left Behind they will say the buses were probably inoperable anyway. Or the school system had to layoff all the drivers before the storm because of cutbacks. Get Sidney Blumenthal on the phone. He'll think of something.
Thank You! . . an first hand report from one of the drivers!
Very valuable information.
I believe those buses only have a tank capacity to get them about 100 miles down the road before needing fuel, but refueling along the way certainly could have been arranged/ordered. Of course prior planning/arrangements would have had to be made for all the folks at the end destination to care for them during & a few days(??) after the storm, or worst-case-scenario flood-out.
Then too, those folks would have had to be convinced of the necessity to leave.
The mayor of NO has already addressed this. He didn't want to inconvenience the passengers since there were no bathrooms on these buses.
If we only assume trips on Saturday and Sunday and just 10 trips a day to someplace outside the city that gets 179200 people out. With a baseline of 224 buses with 40 people per trip. But it's Bush's fault so just forget all this.
We're talking about his responsibility to move people out of harms way.
even at that, 100 miles would have gotten them away from the flooding. The ineptness of the Mayor AND Governor is astounding!
*AMAZING*
A former school bus driver posted the other day that the avg. school bus holds 66 passengers. Multiplying that number by the number of the hundreds of N.O. UNUSED school buses just parked there, imagine what COULD have been accomplished but WASN'T.
Bump
Doncha just love the efficiency of our elected & non-elected big-goobermit-bureaucrats, Comrade.
Interesting . . FReeper "The Inspector" has it at 179,200.
Isn't the nut number somewhere around 80k ? I mean . . there's simply not 179,200 people in New Orleans .. is there?
I drove school buses once upon a time. The bigger diesel buses (no hood on the front) will carry 85 kids and go about 300 miles on a tank IIRC. The smaller ones should hold at least 40 people and go much farther than 100 miles on a tank. Even if only 100 miles, it would get people out of the worst areas.
Do you have an address of where in NO these buses are, my daughter wants to know, she plans to take a copy of this picture to school, as this was a discussion one of her classes.
That turned out to be a good call from the mayor don't you think? The bathrooms at the Convention Center turned out to be much more convenient.
These poor people down there were let down big time and the MSM is doing its best to make sure everybody blames Bush. That's the answer to everything.
Interesting. Thank you for sharing your first hand knowledge.
In your judgement, given that all of the blanco buses pictured here have hoods, would you say they have a capacity of around 40 ?
It's clear that the Mayor of NO isn't up to leading the city. What with the school buses and drivers, there was a system already in place to move thousands.
In all probability, the school buses move more kids each day than this emergency would have required to evacuate those who wanted and could be evacuated.
That would have left the emergency crews to get help to those who needed it.
Feel free to print both of these picutres. I'm sure your daughters class mates will find it interesting (what kid doesn't love a story that involves the bus they ride on each day)
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