i knbow you did not write this, but, click here and
then come back and tell me all the busses available
were used.

http://sirhumphreys.blogspot.com/2005/09/abandoned-school-buses-in-new-orleans.html

you might have to cut and past.

--- Kendall David Corbett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I got this from another list...  It sheds some
> interesting light on the
> evacuation efforts in New Orleans from someone who
> was there.
>
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mary Hooks [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2005 11:20 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [HYCEPH-L] About New Orleans and the
> aftermath
>
> Hey: Don't get me started here!  New Orleans is
> devistated, the citizens of the city and surrounding
> suburbs were ORDERED to evacuate, Mayor
> Nagin made it mandatory.  He provided every transit
> bus available for free, they enacted contra-flow
> where
> the interstates in the city were changed to allow
> traffic
> to flow out of the city in both sides.  There was no
> reason
> for anyone to remain in the city unless they chose
> to do so.
> Honestly, I live here, I saw it all.  They did
> everything they
> could to get those people out of there.  This is NOT
> a
> money issue.  I am so deeply saddened for the people
> that stayed behind and lost their lives.  They are
> still attempting to rescue people trapped in flooded
> homes.
> NO ONE expected the levy to collapse.  We have all
> learned
> from this.  There have been evacuations before for
> hurricanes
> that made a last minute turn and avoided the city.
> It's a cry wolf
> situation, what should you do?  They are doing
> everything they
> can to help those people.  Don't believe eveything
> you see
> on the national news.  It is so sensationalized and
> they
> aren't telling the whole story, only what will sell
> news.  My
> friends please believe me when I tell you this.  All
> of Southeast
> Louisiana is devistated as well as South
> Mississippi.  No one
> expects damage like this, but we are doing out best
> to cope.
> No one expected the levy to break, but it did.  NO
> ONE expected
> this much devistation.  Please, don't start pointing
> fingers, just
> put your hands together and pray instead.  Sorry but
> I am a bit
> emotional right now and reading these posts is very
> upsetting.
> You don't know what you are talking about until you
> are here and
> right in the middle of it.
> I still love ya'll,
> Mary Hooks
>


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