[Cboldt]

Well DUH! This is what happens when you fail to evacuate when there is a manditory evacuation. Gretna was empty. It was the job of the police to stop ANYBODY from coming in. There does need to be some discussion in lots places that this is what happens when you don't evacuate. You can get stuck.

Yeah - but one doesn't expect to get stuck because the town next door closes a public roadway.

I doubt we'll ever grasp the details of the cordon of NOLA - but I suspect not all of the cordon was enforced by feisty neighbors.

[JLS]

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.

[Figment]

"Yeah - but one doesn't expect to get stuck because the town next door closes a public roadway"


If you're not familiar with the area in question, you don't understand why. The people in question were on high ground, there was nowhere they could evacuate to in Gretna. The ones denied access to Gretna were none the worse for being denied.

[af_vet_rr]

Yeah - but one doesn't expect to get stuck because the town next door closes a public roadway.

If they weren't an evacuation route...which it looks like they weren't, then it gets iffy.

If blocking that road put people's lives in danger, then it's a whole different game, and no amount of rationalization can change that, but I don't believe that's the case.

If it was the case, then those people in Gretna, they might not answer here, but they'd be answering to a higher Judge upstairs, someday.

[Rebelbase]

"Yeah - but one doesn't expect to get stuck because the town next door closes a public roadway"

Anthrax/Smallpox scares in 2001 inspired me to map out an escape route from my city to a relative's safe house 50 miles into the rural country without passing through any towns.

From that point there's another route I mapped to a secondary location 200 miles further out.

I bought the county road atlas for my state which shows topography as well as roads. I've even got contingency routes for doing the trip on foot if need be.

Three years ago we could have left on this trip with one hour's notice, either by vehicle or food. It would take me a day or so to get everything together now.