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How can you people live and have steady nerves? Right now I'm biting my nails with worry. It appears everyone is stuck in traffic, no place to go and burning buses now. I finding fault with the media for just showing the snaring traffic. We don't need hysteria, panic, doom and gloom. We need cheerleaders. Why not show images of people who made their destination? It will be a moral booster during this difficult time. Can the media be any use except for bad news?

"I finding fault with the media for just showing the snaring traffic."

Her's my cynical take on this: The media do NOT want Texas to look better than Louisiana because Texas is Bush's home state and has a Republican governor. Thus any problems in Texas will be magnified by the media so as to make a more favorable comparison with Louisiana. I could really see this attitude underlying Paula Zahn's approach last night when she interviewed the Texas governor.

I have to say that even amidst all the bad news, there is great news being reported here, too! Folks in Texas 'cowboy up' when the need arises and they take care of one another!

Turn off your 'SOS/MSM' stations and stream one of the station from Texas onto your computer......I think you'll see a different side of this story!

Streaming Video: (coverage may be intermittent)

KPRC-TV/DT Houston - KPRC-TV/DT Houston - http://mfile.akamai.com/12944/live/reflector:38616.asx
KPLC-TV Lake Charles KPLC Streaming
KHOU-TV/DT Houston: mms://beloint.wm.llnwd.net/beloint_khou
WWLTV NOLA

My husband and I were wondering the same thing. I wish for once they'd show where the people at the head of these lines of traffic are! Where is it that these folks are finally able to go the speed limit? It's killing me sitting here worrying about all these people stuck in traffic. I cannot fathom their frustration at having been there now for OVER 24 hours!!

How can you people live and have steady nerves? Right now I'm biting my nails with worry. It appears everyone is stuck in traffic, no place to go and burning buses now.

Why shouldn't we have steady nerves, we are Texans after all. Life will go on, football will still be played, the oil will start flowing again next week.

It may shock people to know this, but hurricanes have hit Texas before!!! I'm not making it up!!! It has nothing to do with the global warming crap either!!!

We've even had hurricanes hit Houston head-on within recent memory. Look it up, I'm serious.

Heck, we had one hurricane that made Katrina look like a walk in the park.

I remember experiencing Carla from when I was a kid, and I remember my grandfather telling me about seeing Galveston a few weeks after it was all but washed away.

We've had a burning bus with 20+ dead, and that is certainly a tragedy, but it is not anything to put your life on hold for or to panic over - those people who died probably, hopefully lived full lives, and they are hopefully in a better place now.

The most important thing to be taken out of today's tragedy, is the fact that these people died on a bus far away from where the hurricane is going to hit.

They didn't drown. They didn't die because their life-support equipment lost power. They weren't shot by looters. They didn't starve.