So Then... What WAS Up With Those Stranded Buses In New Orleans...

The Jawa Report: Images Show Busses Evacuating New Orleans, More Questions than Answers
Have a birds-eye-view at the strange goings on regarding Nagin's buses, for it seems that SOME of them WERE being used, but to move who or what to where?

Confusing and not at all amusing. Sending a FEW buses to pick up thousands of people would have caused a riot, so I suspect that the several buses in use were employed to move certain people and certain people only. Translation? Them with the connections or the cash, but that's the same thing isn't it?

And yes, MOST of New Orleans was NOT under water and there were certainly enough tall hotels and office buildings to house many hundreds if not thousands of people, but if you believe that the hotel owners would have allowed that then yer crazier than I look. Nagin owes his job to these folks and he waited too long to call for an evacuation because THEY said so, and he didn't use the thousands of hotel rooms available because the businesses would have had his ass on a platter if he even dared to broach the subject. Those facilities are for PAYING customers, not refugee riffraff. Bottom line is that there was plenty of dry-ground and we were led to believe otherwise by the Geraldo-like reporting.

Have a click-see; it's cool and they've done a lot of work looking into this. The caveat is, the dudes from Wizbang were involved and okay, they're as dumb as a box of rocks (Evolution is evil, Evolution is flawed, Evolution is the mark of the devil), but don't seemed to have screwed THIS pooch too badly.