What Ever Happened To The Underwater New Orleans Bus Fleet?

Kevin March 29, 2006 Hurricane Katrina 3 Comments

_{(AP Photo/Phil Coale)}

New Orleans to Sell Flooded Buses on EBay – [NewsMax]
The competition – [eBay Motors]

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Jay Tea March 29, 2006

I hope whoever runs against Nagin buys a couple as campaign props.

J.
Charles Bannerman March 29, 2006

Buses? What buses? Those are submarines from the New Orleans navy.
Chuck
Tim March 29, 2006

And of course, the AP gets it wrong.

Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city’s devastated school system.

Yep, that’s exactly what I think of first when I see that picture. Oh, those poor children. However will they get to school now?