[kittymyrib]

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.

[Dog Gone]

It's not that simple. People didn't leave when they should have (except in Galveston) and you just can't contraflow the freeways easily. Every onramp has to be blocked for about 100 miles, and just as soon as you do it, you're cutting off access to the city. Doctors coming to work at the hospitals. People living north of the airport trying to catch a flight. Trucks delivering water, plywood, and gasoline.

Not only that, WAY more people evacuated than were in "mandatory evacuation" areas. My subdivision is nearly empty, and we're 50 miles from the closest evacuation area. My next door neighbor left for Austin around 9 a.m. today. I'll bet he's nearly made it to I-10 by now, which is about four miles away.

[Zechariah_8_13]

This was such a botched evacuation that it almost makes Gov. Blanko look good.

I really hope you're joking. That statement is ridiculous and has no basis whatsoever in fact.

[oceanview]

oh please.

to be fair, what it does show is the logistical difficulties to evacuate a major metro area like this by auto.