We will never put the kids through this ordeal again.
That's the biggest problem by far with this evacuation fiasco - when the next storm comes towards Houston, a lot of folks won't evacuate because of what they went through over the last two days. TxDOT needs to get its ass in gear and work out the contra-flow problems.
If we didn't have Katrina victims here, we could have easily gotten a room in a north Houston hotel on Monday. If a cat5 happens and we are not housing all of New Orleans, that's our plan next time.
Great news that this hurricane is amazingly still weakening. The outflow looks incredible, but obviously the dry air must be getting to it.
It probably will not regain any strength now at this point.
It will just continue to slowly weaken.......by landfall, 115 mph winds probably.
I actually think White botched this thing good. There needed to be some emergency shelters in Houston and there were none because they said it wasn't safe. So people who didn't think their homes were secure, even though they weren't in the surge zone, took off. I'm not crazy about sheltering in place myself, alone in this little apartment, but they've given me no choice. I couldn't bring myself to join the debacle on the road.
Someone asked him about local shelters this morning and he simply refused to entertain the question.