Originally Posted by bkrownd
Yeah, can you imagine being the person charged with coordinating the bussing of 100,000 people on a couple of day's notice? 1000-2000 busses and drivers - drivers imported from who-knows-where - and at least that many people required for security and logistics. Then where do you take them that will be safe and adequately prepared to receive them? You'd be lucky if you could load half of them in time to depart.
Very good points. But OTOH....
We have learned that many people would not have left, even if they could have, so the actual number of evacuees to be bussed would be something less than 100,000.
Also, THEY DIDN'T EVEN TRY TO GET THOSE PEOPLE OUT. They were totally unprepared, even though "everybody" knew that a hurricane like Katrina would eventually hit the region. That is the real crime, IMO, overshadowing even the slow response
after the hurricane.
These were carfree people who were left behind, in some sense our brothers and sisters.