On Friday evening New Orleans Mayor Cantrell warned that Hurricane Ida had unexpectedly strengthened. “Time is not on our side,” she said in that day's second news conference. “The city cannot issue a mandatory evacuation because we don’t have the time.”
It was too late to order an evacuation, she said, or to call for the major interstate highways to reverse all lanes in the directions out of the city — a tactic called contraflow that leaders in Louisiana use to quickly evacuate populated areas when dealing with a dangerous hurricane or other major emergency.
On Friday morning, the mayor warned of a “major storm heading our way,” ordered evacuations outside the protection of the city’s levee system and told residents to prepare for the hurricane, but she also noted that on Saturday the New Orleans Saints would still play their preseason game — albeit earlier in the day — and said the city planned toSome residents said the mayor's announcement that the Saints planned to play, though the game was ultimately cancelled, made them believe the...
The mayor’s office said the degree of Hurricane Ida’s escalation was unexpected, and it made officials change course in the six hours between the two news conferences. The governor’s office and National Weather Service did not respond to requests for comment, but contraflow typically requires a huge amount of state resources and manpower to pull off, and it necessitates a large degree of coordination and planning.
Kerry Emanuel, an atmospheric science professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said it became increasingly clear to members of the forecasting community on Friday that the storm would rapidly intensify because the water in the Gulf of Mexico was incredibly warm.
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