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Hey Yang? About the rescue buses...re:Gee, I Wonder Why Blacks Won'tVote Republicans? (GOP, The Party of treason) |
I found out what happened to those rescue buses being discussed awhile
back...
http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/091805/new_blanco001.shtml
Nearly three weeks after Hurricane Katrina raged ashore, Gov. Kathleen
Blanco still wants one question answered.
Where were the buses?
Hours after the hurricane hit Aug. 29, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency announced a plan to send 500 commercial buses into New Orleans to
rescue thousands of people left stranded on highways, overpasses and in
shelters, hospitals and homes.
On the day of the storm, or perhaps the day after, FEMA turned down the
state's suggestion to use school buses because they are not air
conditioned, Blanco said Friday in an interview.
*****(like the Superdome was)*****sk
Even after levees broke and residents were crowding the Louisiana
Superdome, then-FEMA Director Mike Brown was bent on using his own buses
to evacuate New Orleans, Blanco said.
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The state had sent 68 school buses into the city on Monday.
Blanco took over more buses from Louisiana school systems and sent them
in on Wednesday, two days after the storm. She tapped the National Guard
to drive them. Each time the buses emptied an area, more people would
appear, she said.
The buses took 15,728 people to safety, a Blanco aide said. But the
state's fleet of school buses wasn't enough. On Wednesday, with the FEMA
buses still not in sight, Blanco called the White House to talk to Bush
and ended up speaking to Chief of Staff Andy Card.
"I said, 'Even if we had 500 buses, they've underestimated the magnitude
of this situation, and I think I need 5,000 buses, not 500,'" Blanco
recounted.
"'But, Andy, those 500 are not here,'" the governor said.
Card promised to get Blanco more buses.
Later Wednesday night, Blanco walked into the State Police
Communications Center and asked if anyone knew anything about the buses.
An officer told her the buses were just entering the state.
"I said, 'Do you mean as in North Louisiana, which is another six hours
from New Orleans?,'" Blanco recalled in the interview. "He said, 'Yes,
m'am.'"
It was at that point, Blanco said, that she realized she had made a
critical error.
"I assumed that FEMA had staged their buses in near proximity," she
said. "I expected them to be out of the storm's way but accessible in
one day's time."
It was late Wednesday. The buses wouldn't get to New Orleans until
Thursday. By then, many of the sickest and the weakest were dead or dying.
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