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One evacuee’s tale is the subject of this blog post: The six hours before dawn took us into the gridlock. Once we hit I-59, traffic was reduced to an average of one to three miles per hour. With no available gas in sight, the option of AC rapidly became too fuel-intensive to embrace. In heat close [...] 
After the traffic jams that were experienced on interstates by folks evacuating southern Louisiana, this post at the Best of New Orleans Blog may be a useful reminder for next time: After an hour of sitting in the well-documented misery that was I-59 in the waning hours of contraflow, we got off as soon as we [...] 
If you were thinking about driving through southern Louisiana ahead of Gustav….maybe that’s not such a good idea. Seen at the Times-Picayune: The contraflow plan to open all lanes of traffic away from coastal areas to speed evacuation from Hurricane Gustav could begin Saturday night and no later than Sunday morning, state officials said this afternoon. The state [...] |
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