During a meeting of the Orleans Parish School Board on June 9, 2005, the topic of using schoolbuses to evacuate the city was discussed. The PDF file appears to be unavailable, but the cache is here. The raw minutes dealing with the buses is below.
Ms. Bartholomew: President Sanders indicated that he wanted this on the […]
In addition to schoolbuses, there were New Orleans Regional Transit Authority vehicles. According to this, Orleans parish's NORTA had:
Fixed route buses: 364; Fixed route streetcars: 42; Paratransit vans and taxis: 40
What I'd like to find is a chart or a map summarizing what assets were available and where they were at various times. There's a […]
From this:
About 300 Houston Independent School District bus drivers and other employees spent Sunday on almost 150 district school buses rescuing hurricane victims from the waterlogged streets of New Orleans.
HISD buses also transported military troops from an airfield to duty within flooded areas…
…The vehicles headed for New Orleans in convoy Saturday night at the request […]
Aug. 31's "After Escaping New Orleans, a Long Wait" discussed the events of Tuesday Aug. 30 in Metarie "on the edge of Interstate 10" near the Causeway Boulevard exit:
…2,000 hungry, flood-weary people, residents of New Orleans' northern neighborhoods and St. Bernard Parish to the northeast… everything they owned on their backs after 36 hours of […]
By now you've already seen the well-known image of the flooded schoolbuses. A copy can be found in this Snopes entry. Here's a picture of a (different?) yard:
Now it's Wesley Pruden's turn to discuss the left's attempts to politicize the disaster:
…The vultures of the venomous left are attacking on two fronts, first that the president didn't do what the incompetent mayor of New Orleans and the pouty governor of Louisiana should have done, and didn't, in the early hours after Katrina loosed […]
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