"For the officials those half drowned school buses in the parking lot
should have been used for the evacuation. Its an obvious oversight
now but future disaster planning in any district should do that. It
will also be necessary to have a plan as to where to put them at the
receiving end. You can't just bus thousands of people to another town
and expect them to fend for themselves, especially when they have no
car and no money"

You are absolutley right. The crybaby mayor now on TV blaming FEMA for
a slow response didn't have sense enough to use the school buses that
were sitting there fully fueled to offer free rides to anyone needing
transportation prior to the hurricane's arrival.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...lpc21109012015

But it's even worse than that. The Burboun Street bars were hosting
hurricane parties the night before the hurricane. Local TV stations
were covering the Mardi Gras like celebrations on the news. The
foolish Mayor/Governor/Police Chief allowed this to go on, which sent a
message to millions of viewers that if the bars were open, it was OK to
stay and couldn't be all that bad. Many other shore area communities
routinely make evacuation mandatory and the send emergency personnel
into neighborhoods with bull horns ordering people to leave. Had NO
officials done this, things could have been a lot different.