It just keeps piling up.
Obviously Bush himself stopped those buses and made them leave empty.
do i have to say /sarcasm?
The night before Katrina hit - I sat and watched the Mayor of New Orleans being interviewed by the local news. He was sitting at the news desk and asked the weatherman, "what can we expect if the levees break"?
I swear to you - that's what he actaully asked the guy !!!
The man was completely clueless.
No one forget - it was President Bush who ordered the mayor to evacuate the city.
The media is so racially terrified - they can't see the truth
The night before Katrina hit - I sat and watched the Mayor of New Orleans being interviewed by the local news. He was sitting at the news desk and asked the weatherman, "what can we expect if the levees break"?
I swear to you - that's what he actaully asked the guy !!!
The man was completely clueless.
No one forget - it was President Bush who ordered the mayor to evacuate the city.
The media is so racially terrified - they can't see the truth
Bush did it.
Webster wasn’t the only group of buses turned away, though. Several hundred school buses, which were sent by order of Gov. Kathleen Blanco, were also turned away with no evacuees — possibly because the buses are not air conditioned and have no bathrooms, and officials did not know how far the buses would have to travel with evacuees.NOW she send busses?
When were they turned away? Yesterday? or LAst Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday? There are lots of buses being turned away now - 10 from DC get a thumbs down from eveyone. They are coming home empty.
Staggeringly bad reporting. I think the little reporterette just forget to ask that question.
"...possibly because the buses are not air conditioned and have no bathrooms..."
Well, if it's not first class, we don't want it... I think I'd have taken a ride on one of those anyway if I needed to get out of a toxic pool of water.
Words fail me. Because the buses didn't have air conditioning and bathrooms, they weren't used to get people out of buildings with no air conditioning and bathrooms.
A little late to be sending buses.
SAVE THE BUSES, NOT THE PEOPLE
The decision by NOLA local government (Mayor Nagin) to save the buses instead of deploying them to evacuate the "poor", the infirm, those needing help, etc. with a category 5 hurricane approaching, has been a a major factor contributing to the chaos and has lead to many unnecessary deaths. The photos of the undeployed buses sitting in 4 feet of water close to the Superdome tells a terrible story. Why do we not see these photos on the mainstream media and why are reporters not questioning this? Someone obviously made a decision that keeping the buses safe by not deploying BEFORE the hurricane would not risk damaging them so they could be used AFTER the storm hit, to evacuate those who weren't dead (as well as keeping the tourist cash flow, if the hurricane misses.). New Orleans has NEVER deployed their buses to evacuate the "poor" and helpless before any hurricane. They gamble to save their precious buses, and now, lose lives because of it. Criminal. And everyone is blaming Bush.
Friday was a week late. Hundreds of buses should have been evacuating tens of thousands of people a week ago Friday.
I guess it is too much to hope that a goverment bean counter that gets paid a six figure salary would figure out that buses could stop for a bathroom break. Better people die than have to hold it for 15 minutes between gas stations.
Ask the staff reporter who wrote this:
krichie@press-herald.com
(318) 377-1866 x108
Bush denies evacuees air conditioned buses, making the evacuation impossible!
Film of the empty buses at 11:00....
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.
When I was in elementary school, we used to take long trips on school buses all the time. I never realized how deprived I was.
What the eff?