I located the web cams for New Orleans on This Site. Look on the for Tropical Weather and Hurricane Web Cams.
OMG! They just announced that at 4pm they will end contraflow. They may extend it if cars are still on the road. Contraflow on I12, I10 and I55 to end at 4pm today. Why?
I located the web cams for New Orleans on This Site. Look on the for Tropical Weather and Hurricane Web Cams.
Based on what has happened here in Georgia (I-16 out of Savannah and I-75 north out of Florida), they end the "contraflow" before the storm hits, figuring that all the locals are done, and it gives the police and other maintenance folks to get to safety before things deteriorate too dramatically.
Tell us northerners what Contraflow is please. I assume it's traffic directed to go in only one direction, in this case OUT of NO. Is that correct?
They aren't stopping the evacuations, just the flow direction?? That means they only had 24 full hours to exit with the contraflow. Great plan.
Emergency services coming from up north.
Power companies sending crews, Red Cross people, Salvation Army people, National Guard people.
Gotta get emergency disaster folks into town and they can't do that with both lanes going one way.
That's my theory.