 After the huricane the communications were not available to contact the drivers of any of those buses to place them into service or save them from being drowned. They had not even been pre positioned on high ground in case of flooding. Indeed, there is no evidence this was ever planned for or even attempted. Ironically the Louisiana National Guard had prepositioned boats and high water trucks at its Jackson Barracks headquarters 6400 Saint Claude Ave New Orleans%DIFDELCMD < ] %%% in New Orleans for emergency use after the hurricane.
<coherence>  After the huricane the communications were not available to contact the drivers of any of those buses to place them into service or save them from being drowned. They had not even been pre positioned on high ground in case of flooding. Indeed, there is no evidence this was ever planned for or even attempted. Ironically the Louisiana National Guard had prepositioned boats and high water trucks at its Jackson Barracks headquarters 6400 Saint Claude Ave New Orleans%DIFDELCMD < ] %%% in New Orleans for emergency use after the hurricane.
 After the huricane the communications were not available to contact the drivers of any of those buses to place them into service 6400 Saint Claude Ave New Orleans%DIFDELCMD < ] %%% in New Orleans for emergency use after the hurricane.