Word: busful
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...town pass on buses, with Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, as the destination. For some evacuees from New Orleans, like Diane Pierce, a former Tulane University Hospital housekeeper, it's almost too much. She sat on a downtown Houston sidewalk Tuesday, all her possessions in a shopping cart, after accepting three bus tickets back to Baton Rouge for herself and two children, aged 10 and 13. "I'm getting out of Texas," she said...
...Continental Airlines, based in Houston, offered Katrina evacuees one-way tickets anywhere in the country but 22-year-old Robin Miller and her family couldn't take the offer because they didn't all have valid IDs. Instead, the Miller family planned to take a Greyhound bus to Atlanta. As the storm headed more westerly, some decided to chance yet another storm. Ronald Mills, a 49-year-old New Orleans truck driver who rescued about 200 people by flat boat, said he plans to stick out Rita. He was staying at a hotel in Brenham, Texas, and had applied...
...their kids were assigned. Within days, however, Anne received a letter from the Walton County School District stating that the onslaught of evacuees had caused overcrowding, and her children would have to study elsewhere. Now they are bused daily to one school, only to be placed on a second bus to another. At this point, all Anne is asking for is normalcy. "It does not matter if it's private or public school," she says. "The most important thing is my children's happiness." --With reporting by Melissa August/ Washington, Steve Barnes/Little Rock, Deborah Fowler and Sonja Steptoe/Houston and Kathie...
...unrealistic expectations of precisely what Washington was capable of doing. "She thought it would be more omniscient and more omnipresent and omnipowerful than it turned out to be," says one. Among her greatest regrets, says the official, is having relied on FEMA's assurances that it would provide bus transportation out of the Superdome to evacuees. A day later, she discovered those buses were still on the way from other states and ordered her staff to start rounding up local buses. Recalls Tyson Bromell II, her rural-development director: "She pulled me to the side, and asked me, 'Where...
...Cost of a 10-bus convoy Washington sent to New Orleans last week to pick up Hurricane Katrina evacuees...