Steve wrote:>>Or, they could be geniunely concerned that they'd be caught with their pants down, so to speak, and have to go though an even more accelerated Rita evac. And unless you're from Houston/SE Texas, you can't understand what hell that was.
Maybe not trolling, but I was trying to be nice
With the "OMG" in the post? They(?) specifically said, "could someone seriously please find out if I need to start evac." What does this tell you? You're going to go to the internet and ask someone else, while freaking, to find out local information that would be all over every media source in your area if it was the case that you could only miss if you didn't enjoy the "luxury" of electricity? And there's a thread 2 up that says, "Let's stay calm."
And as far as the Rita situation, yes I can understand. I was caught up in serious traffic for about 9 or 10 hours three weeks before that. Hell, I was on Dauphin Island for Rita and got stranded there with the jetty rocks washing up on Alabama State Highway 193. So in some ways, Rita was worse for me than it was for people in Houston. I saw 9 feeder bands, and I got stranded for 24 hours. Yes, I realize what hell it was, and I also realize that although evacuation traffic bites the big one, it's better to get stuck in traffic for a while than to get hit by a strong storm. Just ask anyone to your immediate east in the Golden Triangle area and East Texas or in Cameron, Calcasieu or Vermillion Parishes in Louisiana. 100% of them would trade some hell traffic for their homes and possessions.
Steve
Point taken. I agree that the poster was a bit overboard but I've never seen anything like the Rita evac and I hope I never do again. My point was that I could totally see someone wanting maximum lead time to leave before the mobs overrun the roads (contraflow or not) And I did notice you were from LA so I thought it was an odd comment from someone who has obviously been hurt by these situations... but I understand your position. No harm done, sir.
