So Some 200-400 Schoolbuses Were Abandoned...

when one of the disaster plans called for using them to round up citizens to get them out,

Had the plan been followed and these buses used, as many as 13,000 people could have been taken to safer ground much sooner or, as in too many cases, their deaths averted.

Unfortunately, I've never bought the line that first dozens, and then hundreds, and then thousands and now, today ten thousand, human bodies will be found in the city and its suburbs. While I expect authorities - especially the Bushies - to hide large counts, I believe that more likely 20 or 30,000 may have died.

Now that number is a guess-timate based on neighborhood populations and demographics, including age, income, extended family, etc.