With hurricanes growing more intense, more quickly, Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng, who as leader of the state's largest coastal parish is responsible for keeping hundreds of thousands ...

Warmer Gulf waters fuel faster hurricane intensification Evacuations remain difficult for elderly and medical facilities State task force proposed “evaculanes” to ease congestion Officials resist ...

NEW ORLEANS — Many who evacuated during Hurricane Katrina have vivid memories of contraflow, in which thousands of cars crawled for miles side-by-side in a desperate attempt to flee New Orleans.

NEW ORLEANS — Contraflow has not been used to evacuate the New Orleans area since Hurricane Gustav, thanks to the 72-hour notice required to put it into effect and the fact that storms rapidly ...

One New Orleans restaurant’s bad-weather advice displays the gallows humor often necessary to cope with living in such a precarious place. The “Louisiana Hurricane Evacuation Plan” sign on the door ...

The Louisiana Contraflow Task Force met for the first time on Monday in New Orleans to brainstorm ways to improve the process. Contraflow is the reversal of all traffic lanes to help people who are ...

BEAUMONT, Texas — The Texas Department of Transportation has released a map identifying U.S. Highways 69 and 96 as the primary hurricane evacuation routes for Southeast Texas residents, with ...