They just now got onto 290 from the Beltway now.
In other words, they've made approximately 35 miles in 20 hours, they're still in Houston, and 290 is the same sort of parking lot.
It's the same story everywhere, except that people are running out of gas and blocking the road.
And there's no gas to be found. The Governor has asked the Air Force if they can fly some in, but I don't know how you distribute it.
And more good news from Houston. The delay at Hobby airport is many hours long because workers called in "sick" or just didn't show up at all. And there's no room in ANY parking lot. You either take a taxi to the airport or you abandon your car in a bad neighborhood and walk to the airport.
Yep, it's really easy to get on TV and order an evacuation and then have NO highways with the capacity to handle 1.3 million evacuees. Why contraflow wasn't started last night is a mystery only TX Gov. Rick Perry can solve. I suspect it's because every square inch of highway in Texas now has to have a concrete Mexican truck barrier built in the center and you don't have the flexibility you need in this situation. The people I know who have been on the road for hours and have gone nowhere have decided they are going to turn around and go home. This was such a botched evacuation that it almost makes Gov. Blanko look good.