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Re: 300+ school buses were right there (none / 0)

Don't forget how long it takes to fill those buses.  How long has it taken to evacuate the peopl ein the Superdome?  Now imagine adding in the time it takes for the people to not line up after having been seeted at the Superdome but instead having to walk from their homes, if they chose to do it.  These people thought they could ride it out in their third floor apartment.  And they were probable right about the storm.  Its the aftermath that became the problem.  For those people to get out, for all of them to load up on buses with their wheelchairs and oxygen tanks, with their sick children, with their feeble grandmothers, that storm was still a Category 2 and potentially destined for the Texas - Mexico border.  Not that the tracking didn't pan out but you can't spend that kind of money and risk lives doing it with the storm that far out.  This bus theory is 20-20 hindsight and with a really nice pair of rose colored glasses on.  Consider your argument completely thrashed.
"So this is how liberty dies...to thunderous applause." Padme, Star Wars Episode III
by jrflorida on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 02:31:13 AM EST
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