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I think it is on city/state officials to have a disaster plan. That should include how to evacuate these people. With two days notice, how many people could have been moved if all the city buses and school buses had been put to work picking up and dropping off people from/to predetermined locations. The area moves around probably 100,000 or more kids for school every day, this should have been doable. Why didn't they open inbound lanes for outbound traffic? If the Super Dome is a designated evacuation center, why isn't there a stockpile of water and MREs avaiable to supply it on 24hour notice? No one took the threat seriously enough to take the proper steps.

I think your last sentence sums it up pretty well. President Bush took it seriously, but the city and state officials either didn't believe the warnings or did not have a good disaster plan in place. That amazes me because everyone has known for years and years (understatement) what NO and other areas down there would face if ever hit by a big hurricane.

I do not know how long it would have taken for water and MRE's to be hauled in to the Super Dome. Was there time? Did they have access to the amount of supplies they would need? I don't know.

I have the same question as you do about the buses. I can't make a judgement call on that because I'm not privvy to the information that the local officials would have had.