Traffic heading west on Interstate 10 gets rerouted north for 40 miles, after officials turned all four lanes one way to head north out of New Orleans August 27, 2005. People voluntarily began leaving on Saturday.
Marc Crawford, with St. Tammy Parish, bags sand late into the night at the Parish Road maintenance building near Slidell, north of New Orleans August 27. One of five such locations around the parish, the crew has bagged over 8,000 sand bags and are bagging them at a rate of 1,500 an hour for parish residents. They would have been better off if officials dropped the sandbag filling and ordered a mandatory evacuation earlier.
