Images of the flooded yellow school buses juxtaposed against the despair at the Superdome and the Convention Center will long haunt the city. Add these buses to the tens of thousands of private cars abandoned throughout the city and you'll see there was plenty of transport available to take anyone out who wanted to leave.

Now some of the flooded buses are for sale on eBay.

If you come to understand just how NO government is organized with the Mayor responsible for the emergency plan and an elected School Board responsible to the State  in control of the buses you begin to understand the disconnect. Advanced planning can overcome lots of obstacles like these but there was no advanced planning for evacuation other than by car. Municiple transit buses operated by the RTA, which does report to the Mayor, were used to pick people up and deliver them to the Superdome.