The traffic management in Texas is no better than Louisiana. What a nightmare.... at this late hour, still EMPTY southbound lanes and the northbound lanes are a parking lot. I don't get that.
How many hours left to landfall? I don't think LA started contraflow much before 24 hours before Katrina hit.
People are taking 3 of their cars out of town... That is part of the problem. Houston is TERRIBLE traffic on a good day, so this is just adding to the stress and flow of events.
If Joe dugout-packing Pinto finds one unmanned onramp southbound, then not only does he vanish in a puff of smoke, but half of all the outbound evacuees are now stuck in their cars for landfall.
It takes time to put a cop on every on-ramp, and cops are in short supply right now for other reasons.
Relax.
Texas highway clogging doesn't look to be a major problem right now.
Louisiana highway vacancies do, though.
The media is not keeping up with this storm, and therefore, Blanco isn't either.
The traffic mgmt was pretty good in LA, everybody in cars who wanted to get out was able to do so. The auto evac wasn't the problem. Likewise the traffic mgmt here is fine. It is stressful, but we just have to be patient. Still 36 hours to go.