Originally Posted by messiah1

Nagin didn't have control of the school busses, they are school board property. The busses he had control of, the city public transportation busses, he used to execute the city's part of the plan which was to get people that didn't evacuate to temporary shelters hwere they would ride out the storm and be relieved by the state and feds in a couple of days. These busses ran all day sunday for free.

One other point is that Nagin did not have the authority to transport people from NOLA to outside of his jurisdiction.