No I am not but my best friend lives in Galveston -- I heard from her just a short time ago as she is on her way to our house with her son and his fiance. She was in traffic for hours and just started moving much quicker. She saw some of the fuel trucks providing gas and people picking up other people.
She hopes to be here in about four hours and she left behind everything she has except what they put in their car along with their dog. But I guess she and her family don't matter that she thinks the State of Texas is doing a great job of getting people out and helping those stranded along the roadside.
It does matter.Some people are upset with good reason on this thread and it is good she is almost there(((Hugs)))
Am glad that your friend made it out of Galveston. At lunchtime the bridge out was already empty, everyone who wanted to get out was able to. Am not that worried for those in the Houston area who don't live in the storm surge zone, the odds of survival are quite good. Even 80% of those on Galveston Island in the 1900 hurricane survived. Amazing. Everyone currently on the road right now will either make it out, move into the shelters springing up on the north and west sides, or be picked up by last resort buses and taken to shelters. But it is pretty scary for those stuck in that after 16+ hours, or out of gas, or broke down, until they finally make it into a shelter, and only natural to be scared and pessimistic in such a situation. Despair temporarily changes persons, include some of our frightened posters. That's all I'm really saying.