I’m getting quite a few emails on the bus thing along these lines:
You are assuming those buses can run and have gasoline in them………..remember, they have been under water for over 3 days now???
Sheesh, people. Get your heads out of your a***s and think constructively.
Me:Speaking constructively, I think if you actually read the posts you’ll discover that we were talking about using them before the flooding to evacuate people or having them ready in case of an emergency.
Now, some folks have fairly asked where the buses could have been kept. Not knowing the geography, I don’t know for sure. But it seems to me if people have been talking about these levees breaking for decades, and if you know that they can only withstand a cat 3 hurricane, you might have an evacuation plan at the ready which calls for moving vehicles to high ground or putting them in parking structures above the likely flood level or something like that. Again, as I said, Jeb Bush did this sort of thing routinely in Florida. Has there been any evidence that local authorities acted on anything like a serious emergency plan? In other words, maybe some other buses were set aside and I simply haven’t heard about it?