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"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.

Even as sad as this is, it is even more frustrating to watch because as they were trying to clear this from the road, the miles and miles of traffic of evacuees backed up behind them. From the helicopter view, the southbound lanes on the other side were empty. They have yet to be opened to northbound evacuees. ARGH!

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.

I strongly disagree with you over why the media is showing the traffic jams.

Why do I disagree with you? Because the traffic jams are the story right now, and yes, they are a story. The hurricane is still almost a day from making landfall.

Everybody here wants to bury their heads in the sand and ask "why is the mean old media showing the traffic jam"? When you have 100s of thousands all the way upto a million cars stuck or crawling along, containing potentially a million plus people trying to evacuate, hey, guess what's, IT'S A NEWS STORY!

Once the storm makes landfall, the traffic jam becomes forgotten and the focus shifts to reporters who are trying out for the "Best Human Wind Sock" award as well as the "I'm going to pretend to show emotion and sympathy towards people I would never associate with, if it weren't for my job" award.

I would rather see 72 hours of crawling traffic than 144 hours of people wading through water in eastern Harris County and around Port Arthur, because they didn't evacuate in time.