Houston Independent School District dedicated about 300 bus drivers and other employees to the rescue effort as 150 school buses rescued people off the streets of New Orleans.

One wonders why New Orleans didn’t do a better job of enforcing the “mandatory evacuation” order, or even of offering evacuation aid to those who did not have the means to do so themselves. Especially when one sees that there were plenty of vehicles available.

But now they aren’t doing anyone any good. Great planning. But of course, what do you expect from a stressed-out paranoid that believes the CIA is going to disappear him soon:

Apparently suffering from stress and a bit of paranoia, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin tells CNN Saturday night that he believes the CIA will “wipe him out” after his criticism of President Bush and the Federal Government in response to Hurricane Katrina.

Mayor Nagin seemed to have calmed down after meeting with President Bush for two hours on Friday but became stressed again over the current situation still unfolding in his city.

The Mayor has come under serious scrutiny and criticism in the last 72 hours after photos of parking lots filled with school buses that were sitting in a foot of water were released on the Internet. Many critics of the Mayor and Gov. Blanco say the buses could have saved an estimated 20,000 people if they had been used for emergency evacuations which President Bush had declared two days before Katrina hit.