We are stucked in the Worst FreewayTraffic Ever - Florida Evacuees

There is Traffic in all the four lanes of I-16 westbound come to a crawl as people evacuate the coast outside of Savannah, Georgia on September 14, 1999, ahead of Hurricane Floyd.

The Mass evacuations have caused significant problems in the past when millions of residents took the roads at the same time. Florida last witnessed this situation back in 1999 during Hurricane Floyd. During that time the storm was headed toward Jacksonville, in the northeast corner of the state, and the officials there authorized a mandatory evacuation. Suddenly, the storm just turned further north without warning and even made landfall in North Carolina.

In all, about 3 million people across Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina attempted to evacuate, making it the largest evacuation effort in US history, according to a FEMA press release from 2000. Meanwhile, Many of those evacuees became stuck in gridlock in what FEMA charitably described as a "frustrating effort."




"They sought only to flee the hurricane's landfall. Instead they created the largest, longest and most incredibly snarled traffic jam ever known," FEMA wrote.
Sen. Nelson said that back then they did follow the traffic rules and used two-way traffic, and that's why people were stuck in traffic. They actually had to turn around and go back home because there was no way out of the city but one lesson they learnt from that storm is the Florida officials should make entire interstates one-way to better accommodate the flood of evacuees.