I have a sad story about Houma. I have MS and post on a couple MS forums, and one of the guys on the MS forum took his family and evacuated Houma today.
But they got stuck in such traffic gridlock that he was worried they'd be on the highway during the storm, so they returned home.
He's hunkered down, and I gave him all my Florida "hurricane" advice about finding a safe room, etc.
Very scary, he has a wife and little kids he's worried about. He says he doesn't care about property damage.
He's stressed and neither stress nor heat (when the power goes out) will be good for his MS symptoms.
His posts made me really feel for the poor guy, and I know there are lots of others in his position who may have tried to get out but didn't.
BTW,what about all those cars on the road, what's going to happen if they can't clear the highways before gale storm winds? Just heard somebody say they went 30 miles in 5 hours.
Prayers going out for your friend and his family.
This thing is almost there. If the roads are as crowded as I've heard it'll be bad. If they had started this yesterday, they might have gotten them all out by now. Now is the time to hunker down, not be stuck in trafic.
And, yes, sad story too.
All it's going to take is for some trees to blow into the Interstate or signs to come down and cause a wreck and the 5mph evacuation will become an immobile parking lot in the storm's path.