Hurricane Ida will go down as one of the most powerful storms to make landfall in the United States. On the 16th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans was struck by this storm and left broken yet again. //

Bobby Jindal came in and, to his credit, it appears he did fight to get the levee systems of New Orleans in working order, and some improvements were made. But the city itself had made very few changes to allow for the residents to be ready to move in the event of another disaster. Even after sixteen years, it appears the only thing that changed was the levee systems. Everything else failed again.

But the biggest failure of all seems to be a lack of an evacuation plan. //

Gabe Hoffman
@GabeHoff
Contraflow = both sides of major highways in same direction, for storm evacuations

Louisiana 2021:

didn't implement contraflow before Hurricane Ida, many people are stuck in traffic jams trying to evacuate RN

20 years ago in Florida:

@JebBush pioneered a contraflow system
5:59 PM · Aug 28, 2021