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were convinced to get moving, they prepared quickly. Expecting flooding, they moved most of their valuables from their basement apartment to their eighth floor studio. Then all three piled into a minivan and joined the mass evacuation from the city. The highways mound New Orleans had been designated as “Contraflow for the evacuation, meaning that all lanes of traffic were being used by outbound traffic. The three entered the sea of cars heading west from the city Sunday afternoon, not sure where to go and a very long way from Chester Gap.
“We kind of decided as we were going. We stopped in Baton Rouge, but we decided to keep going to Lafayette because the news said that would be far enough out of the storm,” said Justin! “It took all day to get to Lafayette.”
The going was slow despite the Contraflow. Lafayette, LA is about 135 miles west of New Orleans. According to Mapquest.com, it ordinarily takes about 2 hours to travel there. The boys decided to wait things out in Lafayette for a few reasons. Before Katrina had started to be a factor, Justin had been planning to come back and visit Rappahannock anyway, but his roommates had planned to stay in New Orleans.
“My roommates hadn’t decided what to do. They were going to try to get back into the city when everything was over,” explained Justin. More immediate than indecision, practical reasons made staying in Lafayette a good idea. They were almost out of money.
“We had barely had enough gas to get to Lafayette, and the gas in Lafayette was too much,” said Justin.
Living at Wal-Mart
Once Justin, Clowes, and Furtado got to Lafayette, they looked for a place to wait out the
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