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Snopes: School Buses [Well-known pic of flooded buses in New Orleans]
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Sep 07, 2005 08:41am |
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| News Date | Tuesday, September 6, 2005 02:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The photo verification part of this item is simple enough: The image of school buses in a flooded parking lot displayed above was taken in New Orleans on 1 September 2005 by photographer Phil Coale and distributed by the Associated Press (AP); it was published by a variety of news outlets, including Yahoo! News.
Whether this photograph truly represents a lost opportunity to have evacuated a substantial number of New Orleans residents ahead of Hurricane Katrina is difficult to assess. Such a claim presumes an availability of resources (e.g., experienced drivers, fuel) and workable logistics (e.g., sufficient means of notifying and getting residents to departure points, sufficiently clear roads for multiple trips out of town and back, adequate facilities within a reasonable driving distance capable of providing shelter, food, and water to a large number of people for an indeterminate period of time on short notice) that may or may not have been present. (There's no guarantee that all the buses shown in this picture were even in working condition.) |
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