I live in SW Houston, but have moved to a friend's house in the NW area. Due to my work situation, I was unable to evacuate early enough to get out of town. It took 5 hours to drive the 22 miles to get here.
My brother and sister-in law left Houston at 4:30am this morning and arrived at their destination at Lake Placid in Seguin around 7:00pm -over 14 hours to cover approx 180 miles.
My other brother has been traveling all day from Houston to Lake Placid and as of several hours ago, he was still over 100 miles from Seguin.
This thread is too dang long for me to sift through and look for folks in the Killeen/Nolanville area who might be able to help me contact my mother-in-law, sister-in-law and nephew when this is over. They live in mobile homes in Nolanville and are stuck. By Wednesday it was too late to get out - no motels for 600 miles and worried about running out of gas if they just got in the car and started driving.
They are going to a shelter but we (in Utah) are of course worried sick and know that we may lose touch with them for a few days. My husband (4mer Liberal)is a ham operarator and is working on making area contacts, as well as something called Echolink which I'm not clear about. I think it's a ham link using the computer. I know he's talked all over the world on it.
So if anyone lives in that area, and especially if you operate a ham radio, please reply.
And best of luck to all of you staying in Texas. I am praying for all of you.