They piled into pickup trucks and explored one potential route to the flood zone, then looped back and hit water on Jefferson Highway just east of Ochsner Medical Center, near a set of railroad tracks and the Orleans Parish line. The LeBlancs explained that from there it was a straight shot to Memorial along the highway, which turned into Claiborne Avenue. It was the route, in reverse, that the LeBlancs had used to evacuate the city days earlier. The men backed their trailers into the water
