Originally Posted by aico

You are forgetting that the people who stayed, did so by choice. Evacuation began 1 week prior to the hurricane hitting. If they couldn't leave, they should have made that clear to their local officials and I am sure they would have helped them out, but most people there, chose to stay, for one reason of the other.

Those that stayed, did not count on the levy breaking and instantly flooding out the whole place. You must think that the water just trickled in, it didn't, it filled up as fast as it could rush through the broken levy.

Obviously from that picture, after the levy broke and the place flooded, those buses were inoperable, and worthless.

I am sure if they knew the levy was going to break and you'd end up on your roof, no one would have stayed.

Don't blame the Mayor for the people who took a chance and ended up being wrong. They were warned as soon as the storm appeared to be heading toward them, 7 days prior.

It's the same exact chance our Gov't took when the denied funding to upgrade the levies over the past 10 years.