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New Orleans to Sell Flooded Buses on EBay
AP ^ | 03/28/06 | Ap

Posted on 03/28/2006 7:31:36 PM PST by Pikamax

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To: DannyTN

"...buried old schoolbuses in his back yard as a storm/fallout shelter."

Koresh had one buried at Waco....Bunker/Arms room.


41 posted on 03/28/2006 8:10:11 PM PST by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: gondramB

Rename it the SS Ray Nagin.


42 posted on 03/28/2006 8:11:04 PM PST by Mogengator (That government is best which governs least. --Thomas Paine)
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To: Pikamax

Those eBay ads may be interesting to read. "Flooded bus for sale dirt cheap. Engine block is rusted. Only 25,000 miles on odometer. Bus was never driven over 40 mph. It was parked during Katrina."


43 posted on 03/28/2006 8:11:22 PM PST by ex-Texan (Matthew 7:1 through 6)
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To: Txsleuth
Aw jeez, they should just name the state...Landreiusiana...and get it over with.

LOL. Good One!
44 posted on 03/28/2006 8:12:25 PM PST by uncitizen
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To: Pikamax
They face a $111 million shortfall - about a quarter of the district's $430 million annual operating budget. The district also has $264 million in outstanding debt, carried over from before Hurricane Katrina.

But have no fear......when they come at the voters with yet another gazillion dollar school bond, they'll assure the masses that they'll spend that money wisely.

And the dummy voters will believe them.

45 posted on 03/28/2006 8:12:36 PM PST by Lizavetta
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To: Pikamax
Could these LA politicians be any tackier??
46 posted on 03/28/2006 8:13:16 PM PST by uncitizen
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To: Pikamax

I thought I saw that as a joke somewhere.


47 posted on 03/28/2006 8:13:19 PM PST by AmishDude (Amishdude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
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To: gondramB

"If they were a fleet of school buses, why the hell didn't they float??!!!"
48 posted on 03/28/2006 8:16:08 PM PST by weegee ("Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July, but Democrats believe every day is April 15.")
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To: F-117A

ONLY SUBMERGED ONCE!


49 posted on 03/28/2006 8:18:00 PM PST by headstamp (Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
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To: Mogengator

"Rename it the SS Ray Nagin."

Even better


50 posted on 03/28/2006 8:19:35 PM PST by gondramB (Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's and unto God that which is God's.)
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To: DannyTN
Actually I read about a guy who buried old schoolbuses in his back yard as a storm/fallout shelter.

Coincidentally, look what Neal Bortz had posted on his web site today:


51 posted on 03/28/2006 8:20:12 PM PST by upchuck (Wikipedia.com - the most unbelievable web site in the world.)
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To: upchuck

Cool. I would lower it just a little more and put grass on the top though:')


52 posted on 03/28/2006 8:24:09 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: Pikamax
Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city's devastated school system.

Hello!!!! Dumbass AP 'journalist'!!!!! Hellooooo!!!

Those buses have become an icon of failed local and state efforts to do what FEMA and Jorge got blamed for.

53 posted on 03/28/2006 8:24:26 PM PST by Looking4Truth (Radical Muslims and Illegal Mexicans: Too stupid to create so they invade or destroy.)
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To: upchuck
"Coincidentally, look what Neal Bortz had posted on his web site today:"

LOL, I had envisioned them totally covered with dirt and wondered how you got to the door. I keep thinking about Helen Hunt's dad that gets sucked out with the door of the storm shelter in one of the movies. If the suck zone went right over that bus, would it rip the roof open or would that be a sufficient shelter?

54 posted on 03/28/2006 8:32:33 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: CindyDawg

I would lower it and have grass on top too.


55 posted on 03/28/2006 8:34:33 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

"If the suck zone"


The WHAT????


56 posted on 03/28/2006 8:40:41 PM PST by Neville72 (uist)
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To: Neville72
Yes the "suck zone". And I'm not referring to DU either although the name fits.

"According to Rasmussen, "Early in a tornadic thunderstorm, the pressure falls due to increasing rotation. This causes the inflowing wind near the ground to accelerate as it rises toward the updraft. This is what our fictional counterparts in Twister called the tornado's 'suck zone'." A few thousand feet above the ground, this inflowing updraft of air collides with air overtaking the storm from the rear in a region where evaporating raindrops are cooling the air, causing a strong downdraft to form."

SCIENTISTS TO ATTEMPT CLOSE-UP TORNADO OBSERVATIONS (1998)

57 posted on 03/28/2006 8:46:17 PM PST by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Would you use the top escape hatch or have the back open, like in the pic?


58 posted on 03/28/2006 8:48:22 PM PST by CindyDawg
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Rednecks have no Tacky-meter. It would have cost anuther case of Pabst Blue Ribbon to dig that thar hole a foot deeper.

The rugrats would be roller skating around up there & makin all sorts 'O racket!


59 posted on 03/28/2006 8:49:09 PM PST by Delta 21 ( MKC USCG - ret)
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To: CindyDawg

I didn't realize there was a top escape hatch. I probably would use it. It's be easier and safer than leaving the whole end open.


60 posted on 03/28/2006 8:50:32 PM PST by DannyTN
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