Then there were those NON-FLOODED Buses

Remember the picture of hundreds of flooded buses going unused - undeployed during the New Orleans evacuation? Well…

Whizbang claims an exclusive, with this post, and the pictures, too:

On the right is the OTHER Orleans Parish bus barn (the Algiers Bus Barn at 801 Patterson Ave. [Document Link]), less than 5 miles from the Superdome. These buses never flooded and the route from there to the Convention Center and the Superdome was open the whole time. The hurricane blew in Monday morning and this picture was not taken until Wednesday. They did not finish evacuating the Superdome until Saturday.

To put a fine point on it… These were not private buses. They did not belong to a neighboring parish. These buses belonged to Mayor Ray Nagin. He could have used them at any time. He didn’t.
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Your count may vary, but I counted roughly 60 buses in the yard and presumably they filled the bus barns with buses to protect as many as possible. The 2 buildings could have held probably another 50 buses. But for the sake of argument let’s say both buildings were empty. 60 buses X 75 people per bus is 4500 people per load. (you could put 100 per bus, but I’ll be generous)

From the Superdome to Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, is about an hour with no traffic. They could have moved 4500 people every 3 hours. (time to load and unload) Or in other words, they could have had the Dome empty by sundown the day after the storm. .

Hmmm…Ray”the Feds (should) get off their asses.” Nagin supposedly laid off thousands of city workers today. He should have resigned.

by TheAnchoress @ 4:17 pm. Filed under Katrina/Rita

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3 Responses to “Then there were those NON-FLOODED Buses”

Sigmund, Carl and Alfred Says:
October 4th, 2005 at 4:28 pm
Drawn and quartered are two that are under used, don’t you think?
becca Says:
October 4th, 2005 at 7:44 pm
Having lived in Louisiana for six-seven years, I just shake my head anytime politics in that strange state is mentioned. I actually loved Louisiana in many ways (fabulous local artists and writers) … but politically, there was deceit, corruption, incompetence and cronyism years deep … in fact the whole political system in LA is mired in it.
DavidBlock Says:
October 5th, 2005 at 11:56 pm
Well, I lived there from 1980-1995, including the infamous David Duke-Edwin Edwards election (”Vote for the crook, it’s important.”).

It’s not surprising at all. Corruption in politics is a state sport.