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[The plan does not say how such an evacuation should be executed, but states that a full evacuation of the city would take 72 hours, and that the city knows that there are "approximately 100,000 citizens of New Orleans [who] do not have means of personal transportation."

The guidelines of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has little jurisdiction to act on its own but is designed to work with local authorities, suggests that local evacuation plans "coordinate the use of school buses and drivers to support evacuation efforts."

Neither New Orleans Mayor C. Ray Nagin nor Mrs. Blanco ordered buses to take people out of the city before the storm. Two days after the storm hit, the governor issued an order for buses to roll, but by then hundreds of buses in New Orleans were underwater and useless. ]

About says it all.

Paging Sentator Landrieu. Paging Senator Clinton. Paging Senator Kennedy. Paging Congresswoman Pelosi. Paging hairman Screamin' Dean. Etc.

approximately 100,000 citizens of New Orleans [who] do not have means of personal transportation."

DO we Know how many people have been evacuated since the flooding began? Thought I heard 180,000 today? But, that seems high.