Katrina Coverage

There's a long roundup here, including this:

# New Orleans Regional Transit Authority buses weren't available. Most were flooded by the same waters that trapped residents. Buses that could have taken people out of the city before the storm did not.

# Buses that the Federal Emergency Management Agency promised reportedly within hours of Katrina's landfall weren't actually ordered until early Wednesday.

# State government didn't have transportation assets to send. It would take days to mobilize a fleet of school buses from throughout the state.

# There was no emergency plan for moving people before or after the hurricane — just a general framework that was yet to be fleshed out.

See also "How many buses, and where were they?"

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