Gretna is not an evacuation route from N.O. it was merely a looting route. The people on that road were already on high ground and had no legitimate reason to cross the bridge
I heard some of the people who got blocked on the bridge on the radio today being interview. The chief of police in NOLA sent them to the bridge telling them that there were busses waiting there to get them out of the city. They come to the bridge and the Gretna police started firing on them.
The situation is F'ed up.
Hmmm. [scratching chin]
Can anyone confirm this? Not that it really matters, but I'm curious.
If you look at a map, Gretna is in the opposite direction you want to go if your objective is to get out of the way of Katrina. Gretna is to the south east of NO. You want to go North or West. The only reason to go in the direction of Gretna is to loot