had8ley
Engineer
Last year, FEMA was able to procure a set of Sunset equipment and deadheaded it from it's "safe haven" of San Antonio to Avondale, a suburb of New Orleans on the west side of the river and Huey Long bridge. Ninrety five brave souls boarded that train thinking they were headed for Houston, Texas some 300 miles away. The train departed and went to the next division point (145 miles) which was Lafayette, LA Everyone was ordered off the train and put on buses to Little Rock, Arkansas. My question to my astute colleagues is thus~ did we accomplish much. if anything, by bringing a train , out of harm's way for only 95 people and if so, why the sudden change of destination? I'm told Houston said they could take no more BUT only 95 poor souls after they had already taken over 200,000? Who and what is responsible for these kinds of decisions at Amtrak? Care to help out so it doen't happen again ???
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