I saw a piece on CNN where an entire lot of school buses were under water.
Water gets in engines and there are ruined. Maybe this was the case with
local buses, since it was Tuesday or Thursday when the need to evgacuate was
ordered. Most buses I saw on TV were from outside the affected area.

Bobby
----- Original Message -----
From: "ken barber" <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.c-palsy
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2005 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: New Orleans Hurricane Plan


> this is not what i had earlier, but it is what i found
> this afternoon. there are only references made to
> buses in this.
> * Supply transportation as needed in accordance with
> the current Standard Operating Procedures.
>
> * Place special vehicles on alert to be utilized if
> needed.
>
> * Position supervisors and dispatch evacuation buses.
>
> * If warranted by scope of evacuation, implement
> additional service.
>
> i would submit that the mayor could have used the
> school buses, but, even these were not implemented as
> no city buses were sent either. the poor were just
> left.
>
>
> --- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Ken,
>>
>> This is what I found when I searched for New Orleans
>> Hurricane plans.
>> When I searched the document, it mentioned city
>> transit busses, but I
>> couldn't find a reference to the words "school" or
>> "school bus" in the
>> document.  If you do find that other link, please
>> send it along.
>>
>>
> http://www.cityofno.com/SystemModules/PrintPage.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26
>>
>>
>> Kendall
>>
>> An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's
>> redundant!)
>>
>> The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the
>> unreasonable one
>> persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
>> Therefore, all
>> progress depends on the unreasonable man.
>>
>> -George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
>>
>
>
>
>
>
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