Amen to that! The highway system in most large cities is woefully inadequate even for everyday traffic.
I wonder how many people drove both (or more) of their cars out of the cities rather than all piling in one car.
There are still things that could be improved. Maybe there could be one or more HOV lanes to encourage limitations the number of vehicles on the road. Maybe the evacuations could be done by areas rather than just a free for all.
Whether or not these things could be enforced is hard to say, but might be worth a try. Some people would just ignore the rules and do their own things, but most, I believe would stay with the program because they know that if they do, it will get them out of the city faster.
The evac was supposed to be staged by area, and non flood zone area weren't supposed to evac at all, but the media was so hysterical that a helluva lot of people in the non-surge zone bugged out anyway. The media should have been reminding people that the most people die from storm surge not wind, but no, they were screaming "GET OUT NOW! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!" Of course they will conveniently forget that. There were families with more than one car but from what I gathered it was more like me and my kids in one car and my sister and her kids in her car.
When an evacuation is planned every road should be one way out of town. There should be only be a couple of incoming roads for emergency personnel. We learned that in Charleston after Hugo 16 years ago.
Areas like the Keyes need special evacuation plans set up for them.
Be careful making sense regarding the evac procedure. I dared do the same thing last night and was called an idiot by several people.