Webster buses turned away with no evacuees

Minden Press-Herald ^ | 9/6-2005 | Kristi Richie

[SengirV]

WTOP reported TODAY that the buses came back with a total of ONE person. They were also bitching that Williams wasn't there to great them when they arrived at 3AM!!!!

[lizma]

I heard. Opps. Sorry. They took a plane! So much for believing in the DC local gossip.

I also "heard" they were subjected to speeches by the local politicians the moment they got to the armory. As if they hadn't been through enough!

[airborne]

I'm beginning to see a pattern.

It's beginning to look like a vast left wing conspiracy.

[jackbill]

I heard an interview on FOX-NEWS with a retired Louisiana official who said that the department/association responsible for maintaining the levees had used the money to buy a casino and to invest in each others' businesses rather than strengthen the levees. I'm sorry that I didn't note the name, but I hope this info comes out on the Internet somewhere.

Every levee in Louisiana is controlled by a "Levee Board". There are about two dozen "Levee Boards". They are a main source of political power - i.e. they are fiefdoms. And they are corrupt. Yes, some have bought casinos, some have bought aircraft, boats, etc.. You won't change it because it is enshrined in the Louisiana Constitution.

If I had my way, and if I were president, I would not give one damned dollar to Louisiana before I used emminent domain to take over all of the levees and give control of them to the Corps of Engineers.