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To: Sans-Culotte
At least a million are leaving, but at this point, I do not think anyone leaving will get anywhere. The people in the outright coastal areas had to leave, but it is looking logistically impossible for the rest of Houston to do likewise.

Wrong. What we see on TV are the traffic stuck behind the choke points, where the roadways reduce to 2-lanes each way. Once beyond those points it can still be slow, but it will pick up. There is still a good 36 hours to evacuate from central Houston and north. Even if the traffic doesn't average above walking speed, that still gets the people leaving now more than 100 miles inland by late Friday night, which will buy them an extra 24 hours. Converting the outbound lanes will significantly add capacity. Anyone leaving within the next 12 hours will make it out of harms way IF they leave with a near full gas tank. But there are no guarantees if people wait until tomorrow.

939 posted on 09/22/2005 9:09:15 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat

Ya know, clearly we can walk and chew gum at the same time, but on the day when the TV shots of the evacuation will show the worst gridlock, and the media can hype the most desperation, it probably isn't the best time to give a speech on Iraq. How much easier does it make it for the media to whip up the lie that he is out of touch during the height of an emergency? Of course that is a lie, but it continually amazes me how politically tone deaf his advisers can be.


946 posted on 09/22/2005 9:13:03 AM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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To: Diddle E. Squat
Many with full tanks have run out of gas already. People were calling talk shows this morning @ 9:00 A.M. who left their homes @ 10:00 P.M. last night and had only just made it to the other side of town.

Many gas stations are already out of gas, and lines are around the block at the ones that have gas.

1,015 posted on 09/22/2005 9:43:11 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Meadows Place, TX- just S of 59 & the Beltway....)
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