Ironically, many Houston evacuess probably drove into harm's way in an attempt to escape the storm. Sad, condidering what they went through to get out of town. Now, many are probably stranded as they try to find gas, and it will be another traffic jam back home.
Speaking of preparedness, someone told me of a guy who always keeps plywood for boarding up windows. He cut them to size, and labeled each piece, so he can apply them to windows, etc quite quickly. I think I will do that in the hurricane off-season (if we ever get to it).
That is one thing I did not mention. The Katrina thing really did put people into a frenzy and the media took advantage of this. I also think our public officials wanted to be overly cautious because of the NO mayor and the LA governor's debacle of a plan.
I think this caused a big problem and there will be a lot of finger pointing but I have a lot more trust in our public officials than the LA public officials.