[StBernard] St. Bernard Plan

[Westley Annis]

Good God!  I didn't even get home on that Friday till around 4:30!  Then
spent Sat. boarding up, securing/picking up, getting to bank for $$$.  We
got out early Sunday morning.
 
Let's hope the reduced population of the metro area will help for
evacuation(s) this year.
 
Also, the reason I asked about hardcopies of the map was that I tried to
pull down the adobe of that thing (took forever even on broadband) and I
looked at it and said no way I could print that and read it.  (eyes needing
stronger eyeglasses each year! ;-)  )
 
Jim York


 

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	17 days til the start of hurricane season. I went to the State
Police
	website to view the contraflow plan. According to the plan, if you
look back
	at Katrina, St. Bernard, which is in Phase I evacuation, would have
started
	at 5pm on Friday (50 hours prior to tropical storm winds which came
about
	7pm Sunday night) and Phase III evacuation, which starts contraflow
and
	includes metro New Orleans and East Bank Jefferson,, would have
started at
	3pm Saturday (30 hours prior to tropical storm winds). I don't think
people
	in Orleans and Jefferson will wait until Phase III as shown on the
plan . I
	think majority will leave much earlier than when contraflow starts
and it
	will create a lot of traffic because there won't be contraflow until
the 30
	hour mark and the massess willl be leaving well before that. Another
reason
	people will leave in droves prior to contraflow is because if you
live east
	of the Causeway, you will bee forced to travel east, even if your
	destination is somewhere to the west of N.O.
	
	Not too soon to start making your family's personal checklist. Many
of us
	found out the hard way that the things we needed weren't with us and
some of
	what we brought wasn't needed.
	
	ddk