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Yeah - but one doesn't expect to get stuck because the town next door closes a public roadway.
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Are you kidding? Of course the police of a town are responsible for stopping all nonofficial access when there is a manditory evacuation. It happens here all the time after a hurricane. You can not just drive to the affected areas and look around or loot as you please.

The police can not watch every house. When there is a manditory evacuation, everyone is kept out. I suspect that I-10 was still open, but you can not count on that. BTW, if one got to Gretna, there was no place to go from there anyway.

Of course the police of a town are responsible for stopping all nonofficial access when there is a manditory evacuation. It happens here all the time after a hurricane. You can not just drive to the affected areas and look around or loot as you please.

I don't know the lay of the land in enough detail - and if Gretna is a dead end as you say, then of course it makes sense to close the road.

And I agree with the notion of denying access to people who aim to enter for sightseeing or worse purposes. But ehre we are talking about letting people OUT, not letting them in. One-way traffic was the goal, yes? Get 'em all OUT!

My first impression, FWIW, was fully in support of the Gretna sheriff. And the more I read, the stronger my support.

OTOH, I picture myself in NOLA, and able to travel out, and Gretna not being a dead end, and I would not expect that -EXIT- to be closed.

Can you post a map - which way is Gretna in relation to the city proper? In hindsight, the sheriff's actions may be taken as callous on the surface, but he had every right to enforce the policy due to the mandatory evacuation notice affecting HIS domain, NOLA not withstanding.

Political correctness is going to kill us all; martial law should be just what it says. If the Gretna community had no resources to give these people, nor the ability to move them through their community to the next, then blocking access was reasonable for the sheriff to impose to protect the community he is responsible for. Nobody should consider that Gretna was even a temporary haven if it was bad off in terms of wind/hurricane damage.

That said, these guys are likely in for the MSM version of the 'trials of Job'...