I saw it with my own eyes not more than a couple of hours ago. I was helping a friend board up some rather large and exposed windows on his house. On my way back home, I decided to drive to where I could take a look at I-45 here in The Woodlands. It's 10 lanes of parking lot not a half mile away. People are camped out on the side of the road, at businesses on the feeders, and anywhere they can find a place.
There is a significant road construction project just a few miles north, plus all those lanes reduce to two each way. The bottleneck is the main problem here.
We're going to have 75-90 mph winds up here. I don't know what those people will be doing.
The good news is that the highways south of the city are empty.
XM226 (traffic pulse) traffic saying Houston proper is clearing out...the jams are to 20-30 miles outside the city on both Western and Northern routes...
Here's the Houston freeway traffic map. I-45 is backed up from FM 1960. I-10 is backed up from around RT 6 (although that might be the sensors registering the Contraflow traffic). All other traffic seems to be moving.
Yall know where El Campo is? My DIL left about 10 (he thinks) for Austin. My son keeps calling me from Japan asking if I have heard from her yet. I told him traffic crawling and phones down but he worries. How long should it take?