Re: Anybody heard from Uncle Rod?

From: Mark Ensley (fatoudust_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/18/04 

Date: 17 Sep 2004 23:57:26 -0700

rmollise@aol.com (Rod Mollise) wrote in message
> Thanks for thinking of us, but Dorothy and I are fine, in one piece, back home,

Thank goodness!

> and happy things were not worse. Shortly after I signed off on Tuesday PM, we
> pulled up stakes and headed for Atlanta. The projections just did not look
> good, and we are about 2 miles from Mobile Bay. The storm surge could easily
> have spelled doom for poor, old Chaos Manor South. Luckily for us, the storm
> went ashore on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay rather than coming up the Bay,
> with the net effect that water was actually sucked out of the bay rather than
> forced into it.
>
> Took us nearly 9 hours to travel to Atlanta, with most of that being the Mobile
> to Montgomery leg of the trip. The trip up I65 to Montgomery generally takes
> less than 3 hours, but we sat in traffic on the Interstate for a long, long
> time Tuesday night, not hitting Montgomery till after midnight.

This was the problem for us in New Orleans, as well.

For any of you with Pull in the state governments, we need to get a
coordinated interstate effort of evacuation protocol in place.

Whenever a local offical declares an evacuation, the state police need
to help implement a "contraflow" effort on the interstate and state
highways so that the "inbound" lanes can be stopped and used for
evacuation traffic outbound.

Here in New Orleans the evac order was issued and the state police
waited over 12 hours before cooperating, and the routes out of town
were gridlocked. Sounds like this happened to you as well, Rod.

This needs to be coordinated on the interstate, intrastate, and local
levels, so that evacuation notices coorespond with the state police
opening up the roads.

Let your officials hear about this, as lives are at stake.

=Mark Ensley

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