Me too, my friends kept telling me we have to go now, I thought I'd wait a little longer, wanted to have a real good idea of what Rita was going to do before making my move, I started leaving 11am and after seeing the traffic, I decided that on the side of the road was not where I was going to ride out Rita. Back home now hoping to avoid an eye wall hit.
A lot of people on this forum told me I was idiotic for doing it but I took everything in consideration and have kept up minute by minute with this hurricane. As long as a tornado does not hit my house, it was a good move.
Acquaintance just got in to Dallas - left this morning. Only a 5 hour trip.