[Overtaxed]

Those were HIS buses sitting there.

But he would need a place outside the city to bus them to. 'Course I'm assuming that The Plan would have provided for inland shelters to be set up (probably at public schools.)

[MNJohnnie]

'Course I'm assuming that The Plan would have provided for inland shelters to be set up (probably at public schools.)

Yes, I have heard that. Why would the City of NO have plans in place for evacuation and NOT have any idea where to evacuate TO?

[Verginius Rufus]

C-SPAN had an interview with John Barry, author of Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America. He lives in New Orleans and said that one nightmare scenario people had worried about is if they had thousands of people on busses headed out of town, stuck in traffic, and then hit by the hurricane--the death toll would have been horrendous.

I'm not defending the mayor--he failed to see to it that the shelters had adequate water, food, and security, and the school busses could have been used both before Katrina reached shore and during the interval before the levee broke, if he had gotten them to higher ground.