After more than 24 hours on road, a 25-vehicle convoy from the Missouri National Guard arrived on Monday, September 1 in northern Louisiana only hours after Hurricane Gustav hit land farther south, skirting much of New Orleans but still posing a threat.
About 60 members of the guard’s 1139th Military Police Company left the Kansas City suburb of Harrisonville at noon Sunday, August 31. They overnighted outside Little Rock, Ark., at Camp Robinson, where they grabbed a few if any hours of sleep, then hit the road again Monday for the drive to Minden, outside Shreveport.
Capt. Doug McConnell, who commands the 1139th, called it a pretty successful trip.
“We didn’t have any breakdowns or accidents,” he said. “But now this is when you have to really put it into gear.”
Despite Gustav being categorized as a Level 2 Hurricane, the storm ripped roofs off homes, toppled trees and flooded roads. More than 1 million homes were without power. Broadcast news reports said that no looting was reported.
Topics Catastrophe Natural Disasters Louisiana Hurricane Missouri
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