People were taking all the cars they owned, most with less than full tanks. Dad in one, Mom in another, and a teenager in a third. It's been hot this month, which adds to the discomfort.
Does it surprise anybody that clogging six arteries out of Houston with 3 million people can't quite be done in 24 hours?
The Media has been pounding on "Texas officials" all day about the congestion and the stations running out of gas as if they should have foreseen this.
This country is turning into a nation of pussies and wimps, who can't calm down and put up with a little discomfort.
Next time, I say, let 'em all drown!!!
Lots of macro and micro lessons to be learned from Katrina and Rita, that's for sure.
That's sheer lunacy to take a car for each person in a family! No wonder they're not getting anywhere. Pure selfishness and poor planning on the individuals' part. That's not to say those southbound lanes shouldn't have been opened up sooner and better coordinated with all the connecting entities.
However, before we all go ballistic, this isn't all that different from what's happened around my home any time a big enough hurricane approaches, albeit on a smaller scale. The main evacution route drops from four lanes to two just down the road from us. Friends of ours who evacuated for one of the storms spent it on the highway in their car. The press didn't bother to report it though. If only they had known, they could've played the Bush card and ignored the locals' lack of motivation in widening a busy highway between Florida and Alabama.
No kidding, any of these clowns ever driven I-95 around VA/DC during quitin' time??!!