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NEW ORLEANS, La. (KSEE/KGPE) - Thousands traveled to New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl this week, but aft the game was postponed, galore of the 74,000 seats successful the Superdome were near empty.
One of those bare seats belonged to 19-year-old Asher Goldblatt from Mill Valley, California.
Goldblatt traveled to New Orleans for a abrogation and to be the Sugar Bowl.
He spent Tuesday nighttime astatine Bourbon Street, celebrating and taking photos of revelers ringing successful the caller year.
Courtesy: Asher Goldblatt.
Courtesy: Asher Goldblatt.
Courtesy: Asher Goldblatt.He past went backmost to his edifice country astatine 1:30 a.m. Wednesday – little than 2 hours earlier a driver barrelled done the crowd and killed 14 people.
“I was shocked to find retired the timeframe and wherever it was successful narration to wherever I was,” Goldblatt said.
Still shaken by his proximity to the attack, helium says he's relieved helium near erstwhile helium did.
Goldblatt initially flew to New Orleans with his household for the Sugar Bowl betwixt UGA and Notre Dame.
When it got postponed, they decided to commercialized their crippled tickets for level tickets.
“It was conscionable a large hassle for america to get an other nighttime successful the country and alteration our flight,” Goldblatt said.
Those who did enactment for the crippled were nether dense security.
“There's an tremendous instrumentality enforcement beingness down present successful the French Quarter and downtown,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said.
Security guards are emblematic astatine a shot game. What was not emblematic was the fleet of armored vehicles surrounding the stadium.
“The national authorities is going to beryllium collaborating with america to marque definite that everybody is harmless successful the city,” Murrill said.
Agencies each implicit the state are present reevaluating their information systems.
After what helium experienced successful New Orleans, Goldblatt is adding himself to that list.
He says helium volition ne'er locomotion into a assemblage without an exit program again.
“If that happens, I request to cognize what steps I request to take,” Goldblatt said.
