Poll shows most would do it all over again

[GalvestonDuck]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mp ... ry/3384384

Some would try to make other plans (leave even earlier than before, take alternate routes), but almost everyone who evacuated this time would do it all over again.

And you can count me in with them.

[O Town]

Makes sense to me. I know alot of people thought that because of the gridlock they wouldn't do it again. But come on now. Stand in traffic for hours, or take the chance of not surviving the storm. Hummm? You would not be wise to choose the latter of the two, you should evacuate, if told to, no matter how big of a pain it is. Next time maybe there will be better order in the evacuations, or people may just decide to leave earlier.

[Stormtrack]

Storms like Rita in which there were more deaths to evacuues than direct deaths to the storm does make you think though. Certainly people at low elevation should leave however. The 24 deaths or however many from the bus fire were people from Bellaire (an independent city on Houston's West side) where the elevation is about 57 feet. In cases like this, it might not have been a good deal. Another interesting fact from the poll was that a little over 60% of peoople in mandatory evacuation areas left and a little over 40% not in mandatory areas did the same.