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20 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Still Struggles with Evacuation Plans that Minimize Health Risks
Rapid hurricane intensification shortens evacuation windows while Louisiana's underfunded infrastructure causes bottlenecks, leaving tens of thousands at increased health risk, officials say.
- Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development declined the Contraflow Task Force's 2022 recommendations, balking at the multibillion-dollar cost and shifting away from the contraflow plan.
- A warmer Gulf has let storms intensify faster, shortening evacuation windows, while forecasting agencies struggle to predict rapid intensification and low Louisiana transportation spending limits needed upgrades.
- Powell noted that `This is our go-to strategy for hurricane evacuation traffic`, and launching contraflow requires a 72-hour trigger plus 22 hours of prep, while emergency shoulder use takes two to four hours.
- Low-Income, car-less, and senior residents face increased health risks during evacuations, while tens of thousands who remained behind lacked transport despite more than 1 million evacuees.
- Reconstructing shoulders along I-10, I-59, and I-55 would cost at least $1 billion, with bridge widening up to $28 million per mile; public buses to shelters could soon be more accessible.
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20 years after Katrina, Louisiana still struggles with evacuation plans that minimize health risks
In late August 2020, Ashlee Guidry and her staff kept a wary eye on guidance from local officials as Hurricane Laura passed over Cuba en route to southwestern Louisiana.
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20 Years After Katrina, Louisiana Still Struggles With Evacuation Plans That Minimize Health Risks
In late August 2020, Ashlee Guidry and her staff kept a wary eye on guidance from local officials as Hurricane Laura passed over Cuba en route to southwestern Louisiana. Guidry was responsible for the safety of dozens of people living at Stonebridge Place, an assisted living and memory care facility in Sulphur. For days, Laura was just a tropical storm, wet and disorganized. But the Gulf of Mexico was warm — much warmer than average. Local offic…
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