September 2005 (UTC) 

 :Matt Drudge posted a link to this pic with the very accusational headline "WHY DIDN'T YOU DEPLOY THE BUSES DURING THE MANDATORY EVACUATION, MAYOR?"  It should be noted that the school buses apparently aren't owned by the city but by a private company called Laidlaw which runs some 40,000 school buses across the United States, as well as owning Greyhound.  I was only able to find this information, after lots of searching, in an article in the Chicago Times.   02:52, 2005 September 5 (UTC) 

 ::So what's your point?  Is your point the mayor is absolved of his responsibility for providing adequate evacuation vehicles because the mayor decided to contract out school bus services and didn't require the buses to be stored on high ground in the contract?  If yes, that is a very weak point.  If no, what the hell are you talking about?  Whether Drudge references the Associated Press photo or not, the photo is clear and the Drudge question is yet more evidence the mayor has been criticized for his failures.  Long John Silver   

 :::My "point" is contained in the above comment.  Nothing more, nothing less.  Point of fact based on an article in Chicago Tribune.  Don't like facts, don't use Wikipedia.  There are plenty of better places for opinion.   19:15, 2005 September 7 (UTC) 

 Someone (won't make any assumptions here) attempted to re-insert the "unused" school buses theory in the article, in much the same manner as LJS, using the very same .jpg as the Drudge Report which I believe LJS did as well. THIS PHOTO DOES NOT SUBSTANTIATE THE THEORY.   
 :Those buses were parked in the normal city "yard" which is not at one of the lower sections of the city. My thoughts are, yeah, Nagin probably should have sent the buses out to get people on them...yeah, more supplies should have been available at the Superdome...etc. But the reality is that no one expected the morons that run FEMA to take 5 days to get to the Superdome and water and food could easily have been transported via helicopter to hold those people over while they tried to get buses in there...the city buses might have taken one or two trips and gotten 2 or 3 thousand people out...but that is if they were willing to go and to where...well, Nagin couldn't say hey Houston, I'm bringing 30 thousand people to the astrodome.  
 ::Also my understanding is that the school buses were not his to commandeer - i.e. the school board does not fall under the control of the city.   

 Somebody quote big article here, i shortened it.  23:41, 6