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.
Exactly! I think a lot of people liked it that way too! Never could figure out why they didn't take the side roads either. Houston Interstates on a good day are not the best for free flowing traffic. I can remember taking I-10 back to the San Antonio area and it would be conjested long after we left the Houston corp limits and then all of a sudden traffic just disappeared and it was clear sailing.