As I suspected, the Herring Gas guys, along with Realdo, were (are?) stranded in Miami. The plan is to get to Brookhaven MS where Frank M. lives. Kenny B. is recruiting guys to try and sneak back into the city on bikes to do a quick assessment. He recommends being well armed.
Otherwise, not much new to report. Frank the brother in law reported last night that his house, which is just across River Road from the Mississippi River levee five or six blocks upriver from Audubon Park was still dry. I have not gotten a report yet today. He is planning on leaving the city, probably tomorrow.
Top priorities today for the city are repairing the levee breech (it was actually a floodwall lining the drainage canal that separates Orleans from Jefferson parishes), and evacuating the people stranded in the Superdome. FEMA has been calling up doctors asking them to come into the city to assist.
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Forgive me if this is a dumb question, but how does someone leave New Orleans right now? Aren't all the roads out flooded, and other modes of transport (air, rail) inaccessible as well? Or are some roads out still passable?
Some roads should still be passable with large vehicles assuming you can find one that wasn't located in the wrong place and got flooded. FEMA is currently assembling a convoy of around 400 busses to transport the people in the superdome to Houston, TX.
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