I hate to disagree, but it was clear on FOX NEWS that the inbound lanes were still inbound. Sheppard Smith drove right into New Orleans hours before the storm hit.
I-10 was NOT turned around early enough.
I don't care what Fox was showing you. ALL
of the outbound ways were out only the day before the storm, until late afternoon. They should have started it the morning of the day before, but until then, they didn't believe the storm was hitting.
New Orleans has the Causeway, I-10, across the River and airline highway to evacuate the city. They had it planned pretty well. If they had put it into effect 24 hours earlier, it might have saved more lives. If they had announced mandantory evacuation a day earlier, it would have helped.
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
And hindsight is perfect.
They only went into high gear the day before the storm. part of the reason chaos reigns today.