Of course I’m kidding. It’s my way of trying to wake up people.
I’m in Houston and a bit before the legendary Hurricane Rita evacuation, I had big maps of the city and county on my kitchen table and was plotting how to get out of the city, while staying off the freeways. My wife says something like: “Why do all this, we’ll just take I-10 to I-45 and be out of here?”. She was clueless as to what happens when you try to evacuate a city of 4 million people with a total of 4 usable freeway lanes. In the end, we bypassed the worst of it and made it to Ft. Worth in 8 hours...others, not so fortunate.
Figured you were kidding. Printed hand held maps are must haves. I made sure kiddos had a box of maps in their vehicles. Of course, I’m old fashioned and overprotective and geez, like, uh, they have their cells and can take I-35, so duuuuh!