Let us talk about common sense in Hurricane Disaster Evacuations prior to land strike.
The City of New Orleans owns 500 buses, which were running perfectly, that is until the levee broke and the flood came.
The School Districts have another 1000 buses, which were flooded after the Levee Broke.
These 1500 buses if push came to shove could take an average of 50 people each and in fact move 75,000 people.
They could have evacuated the same amount of people who went into evacuation facilities like the Superdome and other safe places.
What we have now is 1500 submerged and ruined buses, good for bus manufacturers, but bad for taxpayers.
The cost to replace those 1500 buses at an average of $50,000 each and that is a lot of money.
Seventy-Five Million Dollars worth of assets flooded and ruined, that could have pre-removed the evacuees.
When did Noah build the ark? Before the flood remember? That money could be used to buy temporary classrooms, levee repairs and recruiting and hiring more police officers who conveniently walked off the job or did not report for duty.
Think about this for next time, it is silly to keep learning all these things after the fact? Those buses could have taken nearly everyone out prior to the storm and the levee that breached afterwards.
Now in hindsight, all the buses are a total loss, when they could have been saved along with the people in adavance?