I didn't get that either, not letting people get off. Hwy. 45 is a few blocks from me and we went somewhere and I saw the exits blocked off and cars stopped and people sitting in their cars. They were not allowed to get off in Conroe. They could have gone east or west on non interstate roads if they could have gotten off.
That's pretty simple thinking, isn't it? Put millions on a road and don't let any get off - guess what, the line of cars isn't going to dissipate any time soon if you won't let them off. Somewhere inside me I'm thinking, “Let me get off this road - it's my car and it's leaving this highway, get the f...... barrels out of my way!” I don't know why some tough guy didn't throw those barrels in the ditch and take an exit. What was anyone going to do to him - come to think of it, I didn't see anyone around.
When you think about it, why didn't someone do that? Would we have enough “save ourselves” gumption to get the barrels out of the way to do what is best for us?
My family was irate, thousands of people were irate about that and as I wrote earlier, it won’t be that ‘calm’ if they ever do that again.
My family saw a woman on her knees, begging, because a policeman wouldn’t let her walk across the highway to a convenience store! He told her, ‘get back in the car lady’!
I believe people will barge right through the roadblocks if it happens again.