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Whoever said it was too early to leave!

#1 Postby jasons2k » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:37 am

Several people (mostly NON-Texans) called us crazy for leaving Tuesday.

Well look at it now!! My friend from Galveston left at 1:30PM for Dallas. They made it only this far at 3AM this morning (I am in Spring).

Now there is almost no way out. Rayford-Sawdust going to I-45 is a parking lot. My wife's best friend left our house at 8:00 and is STILL not to I-45 yet at 10:31AM (2 miles away - this is normally a 5-minute trip tops). It is ABSOLUTE gridlock beyond comprehension.

No gas ANYWHERE. People are actually opening their car doors and letting pets out to fend for themselves.

I hope those know-it-alls feel better now :grrr: . And I hope nobody was dumb enough to listen to them.
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#2 Postby secretforecaster » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:42 am

Only WE know how bad our traffic is on a NORMAL day. As the media keeps saying...this is unprecedented. Good Call!
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#3 Postby LAwxrgal » Thu Sep 22, 2005 10:45 am

Don't you guys in Houston have a contraflow plan? I mean, it's such a large metro area... believe it or not in NOLA briefly on the Saturday before Katrina's landfall, all lanes of the interstate were placed going one way. It worked for a time. I don't know why they abandoned it that Sunday when the mandatory evacs went out though.

On the other end, I'm glad people are heeding these warnings and getting out of dodge.
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#4 Postby Houstonia » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:01 am

I drove east and south to get to my parent's house. For you locals, I took west little york east to the beltway and the beltway south to the westpark exit.

It took me 20 minutes. It takes me 45 minutes on a normal day. i can count on one hand the amount of cars I saw going in my direction.

when I got off the beltway into my parent's neighborhood (sharpstown/chinatown), it was as if there was no hurricane coming at all. Not much traffic, people walking, people on bikes, the newspaper man out.

It actually relieved me in a way.
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#5 Postby HurricaneGirl » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:36 am

Why haven't they allowed people to drive on the opposite side of the roads during this massive evacuation? Have they done that yet?
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#6 Postby sponger » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:42 am

Contra flow on I45 was scheduled at 10 am, with others to be added throughout the day.
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#7 Postby jax » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:43 am

jschlitz wrote:Several people (mostly NON-Texans) called us crazy for leaving Tuesday.

Well look at it now!! My friend from Galveston left at 1:30PM for Dallas. They made it only this far at 3AM this morning (I am in Spring).

Now there is almost no way out. Rayford-Sawdust going to I-45 is a parking lot. My wife's best friend left our house at 8:00 and is STILL not to I-45 yet at 10:31AM (2 miles away - this is normally a 5-minute trip tops). It is ABSOLUTE gridlock beyond comprehension.

No gas ANYWHERE. People are actually opening their car doors and letting pets out to fend for themselves.

I hope those know-it-alls feel better now :grrr: . And I hope nobody was dumb enough to listen to them.


I would have left at midnight tonight... or 2am... all the traffic would be
over... avoiding all the caos. Thats just me... but its worked for me for
decades... let the rush leave all together... then coast out of town...
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#8 Postby jasons2k » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:47 am

They are trying to initiate contraflow now. Problem is unlike FLA, the freeways here were not engineered for it, so it takes some additional planning.

Just saw the TV. Miles and miles of cars pulled into the median along I-45 OUT OF GAS and nowhere to go. They are stranded.
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#9 Postby Roxy » Thu Sep 22, 2005 11:52 am

Even if you left at 10pm, you MIGHT be arriving to San Antonio about now.

I just left those roads, there is no gas. It's a parking lot.

People will be stuck. We came back home beacuse even though this storm is going to be bad...we are safer here than on the road with no gas.


I might try to flee to Sugarland tomorrow if the roads clear up.
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#10 Postby opera ghost » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:16 pm

We left at 3 on Wednesday and it took 6 hours to get to San antonio(Normal 3 hours). We are VERY happy that we chose to leave so early.
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#11 Postby opera ghost » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:16 pm

We left at 3 on Wednesday and it took 6 hours to get to San antonio(Normal 3 hours). We are VERY happy that we chose to leave so early.
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#12 Postby HurricaneGirl » Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:23 pm

sponger wrote:Contra flow on I45 was scheduled at 10 am, with others to be added throughout the day.
I didn't know the term for using both sides of the road. Learn something new every day.
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