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To: Lane3 who wrote (137107)	9/4/2005 4:52:20 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793970

You're assuming that the bussing process would have been orderly. Given what has happened, I don't think we can assume that. Let's say you had 500 buses available. Drivers? Gas? routes? All you could have done is tell people, "go drive a bus, get gas receipts, go through low income neighborhoods, pick up anybody, and head for the hills."

To: Lane3 who wrote (137107)	9/4/2005 4:53:24 PM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793970

Thanks. As I believe that the available evidence suggests that most of the people who remained would not have availed themselves of the opportunity, I also don't believe that the worst-case scenario you paint would have occurred. An estimated 120,000 remained behind. I don't see any reason to believe that more than 40,000 wanted to leave. As the state plan called for the use of those busses one would ordinarily assume that they had a plan how to accomplish that in an orderly fashion, but given their continuing inept response this may not have been true.