Some 400 drivers, HISD police and other personnel, took part. Although they were paid, all had volunteered, said HISD transportation manager Bonnie Russell.
Their duties, Russell said, included: picking up survivors at ferry landings and taking them to hospitals and shelters, retrieving residents in wheelchairs from nursing homes, and transporting 600 National Guard troops with their equipment from New Orleans for rescue missions in flooded rural parishes....
Ah, but what about all those buses in Drudge's famous photo, the ones in N.O. that sat unused in flooded parking lots? Why weren't they used?
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On Sept. 4, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., explained on Fox News Sunday why the buses weren't used: "Mayor Nagin and most mayors in this country have a hard time getting their people to work on a sunny day, let alone getting them out in the city in front of a hurricane."
Another report you didn't see in the MSM...which now even the Grey Lady (i.e. NYTimes) is saying exaggerated the problems...
......But the media's willingness to report thinly attributed rumors may also have contributed to a kind of cultural wreckage that will not clean up easily....many instances in the lurid libretto of widespread murder, carjacking, rape, and assaults that filled the airwaves and newspapers have yet to be established or proved, as far as anyone can determine. And many of the urban legends that sprang up - the systematic rape of children, the slitting of a 7-year-old's throat - so far seem to be just that. (i.e. false rumors)
Living overseas, this bad reporting will only increase disdain for the USA, and few will hear the correction of the falsehoods...and of course the 'racial" angle has already been played up by Howard Dean, head of the Democratic party...for political gain...which will make more Democrats like myself wonder if we really want to belong to a party run by moonbats...
