Seems things just keep getting worse. Have they opened the roads going the opposite direction to evacuees? I know Florida usually does.
Trash cans are Bush's fault BUMP!
Oh boy....if there is any silver lining at all in this mess, it's to see just what needs to be done in our own states in the event of a castrophic event whether it's a storm, earthquake or a terrorist attack. Bottom line...we've got a lot of work to do....and a LOT of replanning to redo.......
I just heard that tanker trucks are going car to car giving every one 5 gallons of gas.
castrophic = catastrophic...(sigh)...
NO! Not the trashcans! This is series!
Why is traffic during a major evacuation news? Is it a surprise?
The media should focus on showing the best routes out of the city and making timely updates instead of showing clips of traffic jams that were taped 24 hours earlier.
This should NOT be allowed to happen. We had better have an independent investigation. When trash cans are full.... uhmm
Trash cans? Why are they whining about trash cans? Nagin killed 400 by leaving his buses to drown, and all the media can complain about in Texas is traffic jams and trash cans.
You know, if I were there, I would get a map out and use country roads to get where I want to go. May not be as fancy, but it beats sitting on the interstate. I do this kind of thing whenever I come upon gridlock, no matter what city I am driving through.
Wow, anybody stupid enough to try to get out of town this late in the game...
READ THE HEADLINES FOR MONDAY....
Thousands possibly lost or injured trying to escape RITA.
and....
RITA PETERS!!! Storm becomes Cat 2 Overnight, causes little damage!
Uh...maybe I'm completely stupid but why don't they evacuate the low lying areas first. They should have grid coming back from the water and evacuate one area at a time instead of everybody trying to get out at once. I can see why people just say to hell with it and stay.
How long before we here about the fictitious rapes and baby killings on the side of the highway?
Time for a Dunkirk? Maybe the authorities could ORGANIZE volunteers from outlying areas to stage in organized areas, then shuttle people from the interstate to these staging areas so fellow Americans can take them to designated areas?
At least get them off the interstate.
Every time I see something like this, I think the military types need to be in charge of these types of operations. They are expert at planning.
FEMA needs to be revamped to be a military-type organization with an other-than-warfighting mission.
So if a family had 3 vehicles, they split up and took them all. Traffic planners didn't anticipate that. No one wanted to leave a car behind to the flood. So now they will park them on the shoulder or the median as they run out of gas and pack into one car, as they should have all along.
If any of them have gas and a map, they can take Rt 71 south for about 15 miles and then US Hwy 90 Alt, south and west from there.
I'm assuming the bus carrying the elderly people that caught fire and exploded did so because the driver had to ride his brakes for 500 miles.
I haven't heard what they are doing with the folks in the Astrodome.
Here in Dallas, people have also been panicking...IN DALLAS!!! Gas lines were huge yesterday, people buying CASES of water (as if Dallas would lose its water supply). Its stupid.
How far is that from the coast? When I saw the congestion yesterday I wondered why they didn't close the other side of the freeway off so people could drive on it. Why do people always wait until the last minute to leave?