Photo montage from someone in new orleans

[LRB]

Why didn't the City start using those buses near the superdome to start evacuation people after the storm. It appears that it was some time before the buses were flooded. All the talk is about how the FEMA buses took so long to get there, but they had hunderds sitting almost right on top of the largest concentration of people who need to be moved. Could it be that local government was actually conveying to the federal government that the situation was not that urgent? I don't know, but I can't understand sitting by and not acting with incredible amounts of resources at their finger tips while at the same time blaming the feds for being slow in their response. Why did it take so long to order an involutary evacuation?