NO Contraflow

bbadon · #1 Postby **bbadon** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:24 pm

Looks like LA will get to try out there new contraflow plan. According to there new plan evacs could start Sat. MOrning. Wow. Cat 3 and above calls for 50 hours out

#2 Postby **crazycajuncane** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:25 pm

I wouldn't expect us to really know where this storm is headed until Friday morning.

#3 Postby **sponger** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:32 pm

I think the safest place to be 5 days out is the center of the cone!

The above is not an official forecast. Please refer the the NHC for official information!

bbadon · #4 Postby **bbadon** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:33 pm

I actually doesn't matter if there is even a chance the this storm will effect New Orleans they will be preparing for evac.

rsdoug1981 · #5 Postby **rsdoug1981** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:34 pm

bbadon wrote:I actually doesn't matter if there is even a chance the this storm will effect New Orleans they will be preparing for evac.

That was a catastrophe for Ivan last year...

bbadon · #6 Postby **bbadon** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:40 pm

But our state govt has completely changed the plan. Basically most of NO will be evactuated in to Mississippi. I wander what happens if they are evacuating Mississippi too.

HurryKane · #7 Postby **HurryKane** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:41 pm

bbadon wrote:But our state govt has completely changed the plan. Basically most of NO will be evactuated in to Mississippi. I wander what happens if they are evacuating Mississippi too.

Gridlock, but in MS instead of LA this time. Guess it's time to whip out the backroads map.

bbadon · #8 Postby **bbadon** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:42 pm

Problem is contraflow this time you will not have a choice which way to go. There will be national guard at all off ramps directing traffic only one way.

#9 Postby **TSmith274** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:45 pm

HurryKane wrote:
bbadon wrote:But our state govt has completely changed the plan. Basically most of NO will be evactuated in to Mississippi. I wander what happens if they are evacuating Mississippi too.

Gridlock, but in MS instead of LA this time. Guess it's time to whip out the backroads map.

BTW, we in New Orleans really do apprieciate yall letting us drive the wrong way on your interstates. Don't think it goes unnoticed.

HurryKane · #10 Postby **HurryKane** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:45 pm

The gridlock I'm talking about will be in Hattiesburg, MS where I-59 and Hwy 49 meet. It was horrible last year--it took some folks three hours to get through Hattiesburg on Hwy 49 because no one did anything about the traffic lights.

If we have to evacuate then I'm doing it in the middle of the night like last time when traffic was a little bit lighter.

BTW, we in New Orleans really do apprieciate yall letting us drive the wrong way on your interstates. Don't think it goes unnoticed.

Aw, we won't charge you tolls since you're so nice

Scott_inVA · #11 Postby **Scott_inVA** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 10:58 pm

bbadon wrote:But our state govt has completely changed the plan. Basically most of NO will be evactuated in to Mississippi. I wander what happens if they are evacuating Mississippi too.

Anyone remember Floyd's evac? What a circle jerk.

Florida basically went up I-95 North. No problem until SC/NC/VA started evacing as well. Ooops!

I'm at the intersectiion of I-81/I-64 inland VA...I-95 traffic was so bad everyone started coming up 77 and 81 to avoid traffic. Then NOR evaced and came across I-64. Ooops!

There was hardly an Interstate hotel room left when Floyd came in up here. 50% of the vehicles were from south of VA and all of them wished they stayed down there. Kinda funny now, wasn't then :eek:

Scott

Rainband · #12 Postby **Rainband** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:06 pm

bbadon wrote:Problem is contraflow this time you will not have a choice which way to go. There will be national guard at all off ramps directing traffic only one way.

Way too early to second guess people who know their jobs :wink:

#13 Postby **LSU2001** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:25 pm

Your right rainband, but the problem is there really is no good way to evac NOLA.
TIM

bbadon · #14 Postby **bbadon** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:54 am

Rainband wrote:
bbadon wrote:Problem is contraflow this time you will not have a choice which way to go. There will be national guard at all off ramps directing traffic only one way.
Way too early to second guess people who know their jobs

I am one of those people. I am just on the other side of the state. Trust me they don't think it will work either.

#15 Postby **Houstonia** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 1:58 am

bbadon wrote:But our state govt has completely changed the plan. Basically most of NO will be evactuated in to Mississippi. I wander what happens if they are evacuating Mississippi too.

Ya know... most hurricanes seem to affect Mississippi as much (or more) than Lousiana. Why don't they evac west to western and north west to ArkLaTex and east Texas?

NC George · #16 Postby **NC George** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:10 am

Scott_inVA wrote:
bbadon wrote:But our state govt has completely changed the plan. Basically most of NO will be evactuated in to Mississippi. I wander what happens if they are evacuating Mississippi too.

Anyone remember Floyd's evac? What a circle jerk.

Florida basically went up I-95 North. No problem until SC/NC/VA started evacing as well. Ooops!

I'm at the intersectiion of I-81/I-64 inland VA...I-95 traffic was so bad everyone started coming up 77 and 81 to avoid traffic. Then NOR evaced and came across I-64. Ooops!

There was hardly an Interstate hotel room left when Floyd came in up here. 50% of the vehicles were from south of VA and all of them wished they stayed down there. Kinda funny now, wasn't then

Scott

Floridians should have stayed in Florida, and moved west, rather than north. Everyone in GA needs to follow I-16 to Atlanta. Everyone in SC should go on I-26 or I-20 towards Columbia. Everyone in NC should have gone west on I40, US 70, or US64. People in VA, I-64 west. There really shouldn't be much N/S movement when you evac the East Coast.

#17 Postby **KBBOCA** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 2:17 am

NC George wrote:Floridians should have stayed in Florida, and moved west, rather than north.

Problem with that statement:

1) Florida is narrow. Going to the other coast isn't necessarily a solution, especially if there's uncertainty re: the track of the storm. Look at how Charley also seriously affected central and eastern FL.

2) For South Florida's major population centers (Miami, Broward, Palm Beach counties, etc.), there is only 1 route west. Alligator alley, with few services. It's narrow and bottlenecks easily, has virtually no lodging and little gas, etc. Not a good choice for a major evac. route.

yzerfan · #18 Postby **yzerfan** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:27 am

NC George wrote:Floridians should have stayed in Florida, and moved west, rather than north.

I-10 got a lot of traffic from Floyd. We lived down by the beach then, and all the beach hotels in Destin-Ft. Walton Beach got a ton of customers with Brevard, Duval, etc. plates on their cars.

Website · #19 Postby **Brent** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:35 am

What about heading west and then north out of New Orleans?? I-10 and then I-55 into Mississippi... :wink:

duris · #20 Postby **duris** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:41 am

Brent wrote:What about heading west and then north out of New Orleans?? I-10 and then I-55 into Mississippi...

Did that for Juan I think. Back then it was bumper to bumper from NO into MS, but it moved. Nothing like last year's evacuation, though we did wait until the middle of the night and took I-55 to Hammond with little problem.

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