[Dialogue] Hurricane Rita

[Diann McCabe]

All the best, Tim.  We're thinking of you.

Diann McCabe
San Marcos, TX


On Sep 22, 2005, at 6:57 PM, Tim Wegner wrote:

> We left at 1:00 PM and by 4:30 PM we had made it a little past outer
> loop 6 - basically all the outbound roads were a parking lot. Many
> people are in the position of running out of gas, which is not
> available anywhere. We had about 3/4 tank so were OK, but the bad
> traffic coupled with the fact that the hurricane was downgraded from
> category five to four and is no longer projected to make a direct hit
> on Houston, and the fact that we're not in a flood plain caused us to
> decide to turn around.  If we lived in Galveston or any of the other
> low lying communities, returning would not be an option. The Mayor is
> actually asking people not exposed to flood risk to get off the roads
> and let others evacuate.
>
> So we're back home, where we'll stay throughout the hurricane.
>
> This will stimulate another set of emergency lessons learned.
> Basically it is not possible to evacuate a city the size of Houston
> in private vehicles. Houston outbound highways are gridlock for up to
> 100 miles or so in every direction away from the coast.
>
> Tim
>
>
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