check the before and afters:
I thought this was kind of amusing because school buses were to play a large part during emergenicies in New Orleans. Buses help because you can transport large groups of people with one vehicle. Imagine what you can do with a whole bunch of buses.
I thought this was kind of amusing because school buses were to play a large part during emergenicies in New Orleans. Buses help because you can transport large groups of people with one vehicle. Imagine what you can do with a whole bunch of buses.
posted by The Cut at 7:59 PM
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I have read a lot about these buses and seen this picture. Only part of the story. Before an indictment is issued over these buses, one must start thinking reasonably.
You say, "Imagine what you can do with a whole bunch of buses." Let me sum up what I can do with a a whole bunch of buses: nothing. I can't do a god damn thing to help anyone with a whole bunch of buses. That's because I cannot drive a bus.
Now, let's say, hypothetically, that I COULD drive a bus. What I could do then is drive one of them. Perhaps pick up soem people. I'm sure everyone would be totally reasonable about who got on my bus. I'm sure that once the bus waws filled, everyone would be totally reasonable about letting me drive off.
Of course, I could show up with my school bus, and someone in one of the actual evacuation buses might look at me and say, "What the hell are you doing?" "Oh, I took a bus," I'd say, "Thought I might help." "Well," they'd say, "are you a bus driver?" "Why, no," I'd say. "Well, look. it's Sunday night. We've announced the evacuation. We've made ourselves as available as possible. You aren't a bus driver. It looks like we have things well in hand. Why don't you, uh, stand down?"
But, let's imagine that I am a New Orleans school bus driver. I might think, "Shit, you know, apropos of nothing, I'd better get my school bus out of the lot, and start driving around in my one bus, helping people with my awesome one bus and my bus driving skills." But, like I said, that thought would probably come apropos of nothing. As a New Orleans School Bus Driver, is serving as a transport for a public evacuation part of my job? Have I been given instructions on where to go, what to do, who to call, what supplies I should stock my bus with, where I'm going to get gas for the bus, what my pick up route is, what my route for getting out of town is?
Isn't it more likely that, as a New Orleans School Bus Driver, the response I'm likely to have when I hear the evacuation is on, is something more like: "Oh my. An evacuation. I'd better comply with it, get my family, and drive to Baton Rouge."?
But, one thinks, someone ELSE could have driven those buses! Okay. Who? Would they be leaving a critical post to go driving a school bus? If you're assigned by local authorities to drive a bus during the evacuation, isn't it likely that you've already been given a bus to do the job with? Has there been discussion rergarding how many buses need to be deployed? If not, why not? If so, did all parties agree that X number of buses would be deployed? Is it really a virtue to get every vehicle you possibly can on the road on a night where there are mile-long backups going out of town already?
At any rate, look at the picture, and draw whatever conclusion you want. But realize that the truth is far more complicated than the picture suggests.
I'll grant you this: if that picture depicts a fleet of school buses that could have, like, COME TO LIFE AND SHIT, and driven themselves around, then I'd have to ask the buses why didn't they help?
damn buses! Where were you? It's all their fault!
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