NOLA Aerial Photos of Destruction

Go here and check out a 31-picture slideshow showing the destruction of Hurricane Katrina's wrath and the vulnerability of Lake Ponchartrain's levee system had on the city of New Orleans. One of the slideshow, #30, shows New Orleans yellow school buses sitting, unused, in floodwaters when the Mayor of New Orleans could have put them into live saving use in the evacuation efforts for those who had no means of transportation.


Approximately 95 yellow school buses seen
sitting in floodwaters.


Now, each bus is capable of carrying approximately 40 people. One trip alone evacuating New Orleans would evacuate 3800 people (using the 95 buses seen in the picture, and we may be talking about several hundred yellow school buses sitting unused, now forever damaged by floodwaters) multiplied however many trips needed throughout the day in shuttling those out of New Orleans. With all of the yellow school buses already available, they can easily transport 30,000 to 40,000 evacuees every two hours out of New Orleans fish bowl for those who do not own cars or have other means of transportation. Why didn't the Mayor of New Orleans choose to do this? Hey, better look a bit closer at New Orleans than President Bush.

No, Michael Moore, those are not Twinkies. Remember, Twinkies are no longer being made.