I recall seeing video of bumper to bumper traffic leaving New Orleans in the outbound lanes only. I was dumbfounded when reporters stated both incoming and outbound lanes were being used for the evacuation when that obviously was not the case.
I must have lying eyes.
Bump--I noticed the same thing, too. It's called the "Hodges Conundrum" (I made that up, but there was a governor of SC who muffed up a hurrican evac, too. He was a puppet of the trial lawyers and that's ALL he was...)
BEN STEIN BUMP! Your eyes were wide open, like the rest of us "civilians"... MSM may be the loser (we can only hope)!
Well, my "lying eyes" saw the same thing...outbound bumper to bumper and inbound vacant-no traffic at all.
"I recall seeing video of bumper to bumper traffic leaving New Orleans in the outbound lanes only. I was dumbfounded when reporters stated both incoming and outbound lanes were being used for the evacuation when that obviously was not the case."
I have commented on the picture of I10 outbound with lane to lane traffic jams, and I10 inbound with a few inbound vehicles. There should have been zero inbound traffic all of the lanes should have been outbound.
Of course that was GW's, Rove's and Halliburton's fault.
I bet there were some periods of contraflow that conveniently were not filmed. I noticed a pattern in last week's video. As soon as a rescue effort was operational, the agony channels switched focus to a new threat or failure. For example, when the helicopters and buses were clearing out NO, instead of a few reports on the scope of the rescue, show producers started hyping up the threat lurking in the floodwaters.
For another example, the VA hospitals were successfully evacuated. Did we ever hear about that on TV?