Amtrak tried to help Evacuate NO, was told no thank you

[Anonymous]

Sorry to say it this way, but the mayor NO was pretty much not qualified to run the city, with the bus issue, handing off to state level, Bu***elling him to get people out and ignoring, the scandals before the event, how the Army Corp was willing to, even had the $$ to do enhancements to the levee but yet the female senator moving money around. I would say these people were let down by the very people they elected.

[UPTRAIN]

Sounds like somebody was sleepin on the job, their train of thought died on the hours of service law!

[robscaboose]

[:0][:0]There is an excellent article in the 9/11/05 Washington Post about the massive amount of confusion at all levels of gov't concerning hurricane Katrina. In the article Amtrak had about 20 cars that they wished to move to higher ground. Amtrak offerred to transport people wanting to evacuate NO, but they city officials declined. So the train headed North empty.

Rob