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 Approaching the Turnoff for Tunica
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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 [...]
It seems that the downside of having 1.9 million people evacuate Louisiana this time is that perhaps the evacuation routes might have been a bit underpowered. Despite what’s been heard on CNN, the Best of New Orleans blog reported this afternoon: I am livid with the information we are receiving from the authorities and the media about [...] |
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