Just curious...watching aerial views of FL gridlocked freeways.....
All of the north bound lanes are gridlocked....the southbound lanes are WIDE open...maybe a few cars traveling south.
WHY ON EARTH have they not opened the southbound lanes (except maybe one lane) to northbound/evacuating traffic?????
Texas learned this lesson during Rita. They now have all west bound AND east bound lanes of I-10 opened to the west, when a mandatory evac is happening, from Houston.
I just chatted with a couple who evacuated from Miami. Husband said the drive across Alligator Alley was a breeze. Made excellent time. Only problem was getting gasoline.
They’ve done the reverse-flow thing in the past on the Turnpike, and may do so again tomorrow (though I’m not seeing any announcements about that so far)... there are few arterial roads down there, so any equipment that needs to be staged has to use I-95 or the Turnpike (or Alligator alley, I suppose).
But yeah - they learned that trick back with Andrew.
The only thing I can think of are supply/logistic/emergency routes. A lot of people are still trying to get to the highway/low on gas to even begin “the march”.
“WHY ON EARTH have they not opened the southbound lanes (except maybe one lane) to northbound/evacuating traffic?????”
I’ve heard (not sure where/how) that that should happen tomorrow. True? IDK.
I think they are trying to truck in food, water, and gas, but that’s just me. It will change soon.