Obviously you have not been listening to the news. The Governor has fuel trucks going all over the highways providing people that ran out of fuel with fuel. The traffic jams are getting less as the evening has gone on and will continue to diminish throughout the night since they opened the interstates to outflowing traffic only.
I've let this subject slide all day.
You could pretty much hear the herd collectively thinking "I'll set the alarm 10 minutes early so I can beat the rush", Wednesday night when they went to bed to a CAT 5.
Roads clog up, people get where they're going, roads go empty, happens every storm.
You can almost set your landfall clock by the TV News imagery of full and empty freeways.
Back off with the cheerleading. He's down in the middle of it, with a home at risk, you aren't.
Some of the state agencies made major mistakes with the gas shortage and Hwy 290 contraflow. Nothing like what happened in LA, but still a big problem. The evac plan didn't anticipate that so many inland Houston folks would evacuate, nor did they anticipate that so many gas stations would shut down early and run(many did NOT run out of gas, but rather their staff simply closed up and got out.) Some of the inland counties and municipalities failed to provided the staff and resources that they have been required to implement in the evac plan for years. There will be hell to pay for that later on. Before 2pm TXDOT was saying that it would soon open up the 290 contraflow, one of 3 contraflows. At 2:15 they said that they couldn't open it because they needed the inbound lanes for emergency traffic. That kind of stuff is supposed to be figured out in the planning stages, not when a crisis erupts. Also turns out that they discovered that they didn't have the personnel to seal off enough of the entrances/exits along that road. Another planning failure.
Amazing that we've evacuated 2.5 million already, and more will get out before it is over. Harris County, Houston, and Galveston have done a great job. Rick Perry has done some great things during this. However some state and local agencies have dropped the ball, and they sure as hell better hope this storm doesn't shift back west to Houston.
That is correct, I have stopped listening just about everything except my own brain, I feel much better about things now that I have realized that I am on my own, I have friends, we will see one another thru this storm and we will farfe better then those stuck on the side of the road.
Also I will be able to provide yall with really good reports of contition on Galveston bay, news media is at clear lake Hilton, wimps, the real action we be at Galveston Island and Galveston Bay. But I will bail out of my house and go to a more secure location if/when things get really bad.