Last night I decided to leave my apartment, near the Galleria area in west Houston, to spend the next couple of days at my parents' house up in northwest Harris County near Tomball. The drive up Hwy 290 normally takes between 45 and 60 minutes, depending on traffic.
It took me 6 and a half hours. We get some pretty bad rush hour traffic in Houston (Mass transportation? That's for sissies!), but this was like nothing I've ever seen before. The news this morning said that the major roads out of the city were backed up for 100 miles out. Roughly a million people left town yesterday.
I saw on the news a little while ago they are now opening up the inbound lanes of I-45, I-10 and 290 to outbound traffic. They are also supposedly bringing in fuel trucks to help people who ran out of gas on the highways. Here's hoping nobody is still stuck on the roads when the storm hits.
Thanks for your thoughts, and for all the coverage you did on Katrina, Liz. And for the Acme Heartbreak Repair Kit, too. I look forward to reading more after the storm passes, if we get electricity back. Adios for now.
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It took me 6 and a half hours. We get some pretty bad rush hour traffic in Houston (Mass transportation? That's for sissies!), but this was like nothing I've ever seen before. The news this morning said that the major roads out of the city were backed up for 100 miles out. Roughly a million people left town yesterday.
I saw on the news a little while ago they are now opening up the inbound lanes of I-45, I-10 and 290 to outbound traffic. They are also supposedly bringing in fuel trucks to help people who ran out of gas on the highways. Here's hoping nobody is still stuck on the roads when the storm hits.
Thanks for your thoughts, and for all the coverage you did on Katrina, Liz. And for the Acme Heartbreak Repair Kit, too. I look forward to reading more after the storm passes, if we get electricity back. Adios for now.