I know the easy answer is politics but it has to be more complicated that that because evacuations tend to involve other things that go against certain politics (like free food and open shelters). And even though somewhere like Florida doesn’t have tons of public buses, it would be logistically relatively easy to redirect the ones they do have plus school buses and private buses that are currently in disuse. Or for Amtrak to send extra trains down there, like cities do for sporting events. I’m seeing a lot of people online who seem like they’d be willing to jump on the first train/bus/plane to literally anywhere. What’s the logic in not making that more available as an option?
I’m using the US but I do feel like it’s not something you see even in general, at least not as much as expected.
Are there more complex reasons that I’m not considering?
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Ask Ray Nagin how well he handled that with the school busses and Katrina…
New Orleans had parking lots full of empty school busses and wouldn’t use them to get people out of the area after the storm hit and everything flooded. If I recall, a kid, like 16 years old or thereabouts, broke into one and basically stole it, filled it full of evacuees, and drove to Houston. I think he got in trouble for it but that dude is a freaking hero in my book.
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