For anyone familiar with Houston, I-45 NB from NASA Road 1 to downtown is running at 283 minutes (and no, that's not a typo).
Haven't they heard of contraflow down there?
Turn them roads around now!
I wonder how many people will run out of gas on the highway while trying to evacuate.
She's on campus in a now lightly-populated dorm and just walked to a Walgreens to pick up some grub to sit out the long weekend....looks like there's not much choice for the poor kid.
Campus "security" assures the parents they won't pull a 'New Orleans Police' gig.
Holy Cow! This is what is worrying me about everybody screaming for everyone to get out right now. I personally feel the people in Houston should stay until tomorrow to let the people in the southern counties out. Houston is huge and densely populated. It takes an hour and a half (from Nasa Rd 1 to Conroe) to cross it during non-traffic times. I suspect that is why the government is asking Houstonians to stay put for now.
For info for people about Houston Freeways; traffic cams, map of freeway system, etc. Ckick on the camera icon's and you can watch traffic flow. Updated automatically. Use map control on the left to add layers of incidents, construction, etc.
http://traffic.houstontranstar.org/layers/layers.aspx