**UPDATE 2:50 – 4:20 PM PST: NEW ORLEANS RADIO SILENCE.
**UPDATE: 2:41 PM PST: Dispatcher issued 10-19 – Return to station.
**UPDATE: 2:37 PM PST: Commander just informed dispatcher to ignore ALL code 1 calls (lowest priority) until after the storm.
**UPDATE: 2:33 PM PST: Wires from many power lines reported “hanging low” and as one cops put it, “A Uhaul truck will take all these wires out”
**UPDATE: 2:29 PM PST: — MORE POWER LINES GOING DOWN! This time cops reporting smoke and fire associated with the downed line.
**UPDATE: 2:22 PM PST: Power lines are toppling over in New Orleans, near the Superdome. I have counted reports of two going down so far.
THECOUNT.COM EXCLUSIVE! I have been monitoring the police scanner in the area of the Superdome expecting some interesting rescues, but what I ended learning was totally unexpected. After listening to cops speaking back and forth, I realized, they were using the Superdome as a staging area and more importantly, they were evacuating THEMSELVES to the Superdome inviting other city workers to join them!
I overheard cops as they moved their squad cars and other government vehicles in “garage one” of the Superdome. I also heard officials saying that city workers would be allowed to hunker down inside the Superdome but must show government ID in order to enter! I know the general public was told to NOT go to the Superdome, and now we know why! Government types got first dibs! And are already holdup in it!
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