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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:22 PM
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It seems to me that these could have been used better
on Saturday and Sunday. Am I wrong? (They are school buses in NO) Where were the plans?





http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/ts/080304tropicalweathe/im:/050830/480/ladp13108302047
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:24 PM
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1. GOOD point. (nt)
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calico1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:24 PM
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2. I was talking to someone at work today
about this very subject. School buses, public transportation buses, charter buses. Were any of them used to help evacuate people who did not have transportation?
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WindRavenX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:25 PM
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3. seems to me that no one knows how to do anything
Great Leader knows jack shit, and everyone else is just...not mobilizing at a rate that I would think should be expected...
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undergroundrailroad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:25 PM
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4. Excellent point! (n/t)
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:33 PM
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5. Nero didn't play the lyre very well, either.
This may go down as a prime example of what happened after the American Government was privatized, downsized, and cannabalized by rogue intelligence operators, corrupt businessmen and Saudi Princes.

This is the kind of event that starts revolutions!
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:42 PM
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9. Picture of shrub playing the guitar(from another post)..
while NO drowns?
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:33 PM
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6. Hmmm let's see
Roughly 80 buses.
Each bus holds 60 (?) people

Thats close to being a ride for 5000 people.

Not bad.

Where are these buses now? Underwater and of no use to anyone anymore?
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:34 PM
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7. (See photo)
Yes, that's exactly where they are. :-(
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SammyWinstonJack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:35 PM
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8. That would require thinking outside of the box, I guess.
:shrug:
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Mutley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-30-05 05:45 PM
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10. I asked my SO the same question when we were watching
Edited on Tue Aug-30-05 05:45 PM by mutley_r_us
the evacuation. Why couldn't they use school busses, city busses, PRIVATE busses, anything big enough to hold even a few people to get as many as possible out of the city? The sad motherfucking truth is that most of those left behind are poor black or hispanic people, and to those in charge it wasn't worth all of that time, effort, and money to get them out. It makes me so fucking mad. :grr: :banghead: x( Sorry about all the cussing.
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