Grab a box of 100 toothpicks, and dump it out on a table. Now, the highest toothpick represents the I90 West highway, the only route out of NO, and every other toothpick represents a pick up location at it points, and where toothpicks cross represent both pick up and drop off locations. Now, if you can remember 250 possible pickup points, and can rattle of directions from any pick up point to every necessary drop off point to reach I90West in less than 10 seconds, you can talk about how that spokesperson failed.
No one at the top of a chain of command should know that off the top of their heads in a on the fly, fluctuating situation. They should be able to hand it off to a working group under their command, and get the info in a period of time not possible for on air 40 second interviews.
You sound condescending and out of your league.
Your toothpick example is nonsense and nowhere representative of the situation. Hwy 90 is one of only 2 routes out of the city. He gave her the exact address, stated he was near the superdome, and that people were walking across the river bridge out of New Orleans. There are only 2, and only one near downtown. It is ludicrous that the LA state police spokesperson wouldn't know where the evacuation pickup point was, if there were any, along that hwy 90 or near downtown New Orleans. That's what they get paid for. Evacuation pickup points(and there aren't anywhere near 250 organized one, also a ludicrous assertion) are the most important information to get out when the number 1 priority is evacuating the city. What's the point of going on TV and stating that there are evacuation points if you can't tell the people trying to get there where to go? There are 100,000 who have to be evacuated, and it would speed it up tremendously, and save lives (not a cliche this time) if most of them can walk to pickup points instead of waiting for limited crews to rescue them.