Interesting that 70 out of 322 buses were out of service. Just illustrates yet another failure of the city ungovernment. If those buses were in private hands I can assure that they would be getting preventive maint. and that only 4-5 would be out of service. What this really says is that because NO is so inefficient for school bus maint. they have to buy an additional 70 buses. The welfare state at work!!!
Also, the police department in NO had three police boats, two of which were inoperable. Therefore they had one boat to do the initial rescues. The chief asked those officers who had boats and could get to them to bring them in to use in the rescues. The whole city is incompetent.