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Originally posted by Joeaksa
The city had at least 300 school busses that hold at least 40 people each. Thats 12,000 people in one trip that could have been moved had someone woken up and used these alone. There had to be city busses that also could have been used. Do this trip 3 times in 36 hours and it would have made a big difference.
The city nor state was not prepared for this, there is no way around it. The sooner that they admit it and move on the better. FEMA should also have had a better plan and it did not get working on things until too late.
Lets correct all of the above for the next storm that WILL hit the area sometime in the future.
JoeA
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You crack me up. You don't think things through, do you? You pull just one teeny part of the "plan." Sure he could pick them up, but then what?
Answer it ALL or don't bother. Here, I'll paste it again:
Read my post:
I know it's not logical to be able to evacuate a city of that size to mannaland....the "bowl" extends (when superimposed on a map of my area) I could drive 1 hour north on good highway traffic and 1/2 hour south on good highway traffic and I'd still be in the flood zone. Then, I'd have to take these people out of the path of the tropical storm that ensues once it hits landfall since I don't think it would be safe to be in that in the middle of a cornfield. I will also need to get food/water/tents, bathrooms to mannaland. All in 36 hours.
And I'll continue
Now I'm the mayor. In 36 hours I have to drive down the streets, get people, drive them very far (see above) then come back, do it all over again, approximately 100,000 people without vehicles.
Sorry, I think that is totally unrealistic in 36 hours.
And sidenote, the mayor stated he used those "smoking gun buses silliness" to bus people to the Superdome. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen, but I'm sure you know the answer based on your little internet tidbit "inside knowledge" right?