You may find this highly offensive. You may not.
People have freaked out.
The city of Houston is gone. Not destroyed. Vacant. People are no where to be found. Everyone has left. Frankly, I don't know why. I am 50+ feet above sea level and I am better than 60 miles from the coast of Galveston. I live west of downtown. I am the only person on my block that has stayed. I am not in a mandatory evacuation zone. I am 10+ miles from a voluntary evacuation zone. Again, I am the only person left on my block of over 50 houses.
Everyone that has paid an iot an iota of attention knows that the freeways have been gridlocked for over two days. Let me tell you why.
The city and state government have done an incredible job of getting the people that need to leave town out of town. For every one person that needed to evacuate, there are probably five that left that didn't need to. As I said before, there are over 50 houses on my block. Since I'm the only one that left, that means probably 40+ cars got on the highway that didn't have to. And they got to the road ways before and at the same time so many others needed to leave. ad to leave. This is the reason the freeways are gridlocked. This is the reason there is no gas. This is the reason why people have run out of gas on the freeways. It sucks.
I live 60 miles from the coast. People heard the hurricane might come to Houston and they dropped everything and left. I picked up baby joggers, swings, flagpoles, benches and rocking chairs, baseball bats, 2x4's from homes being built down the street (tons of other things). So many things that could have been turned into 50+ MPH missles and put them in my garage. People didn't take one minute to think about the process. It was complete pandemonium.
Is it any wonder why so many fled? After seeing Katrina? No. Please. For those of you who ever find yourselves in a situation like this-----Maintain your composure-----Think about the benefits of your actions versus the costs, to yourself and to others---Think about how your actions affect those around you-----Do not, in your haste, forget that others may face far graver danger than you and need the right and time to leave before you, to get what they need before you or ask for it first.
This is just a rant.
People have freaked out.
The city of Houston is gone. Not destroyed. Vacant. People are no where to be found. Everyone has left. Frankly, I don't know why. I am 50+ feet above sea level and I am better than 60 miles from the coast of Galveston. I live west of downtown. I am the only person on my block that has stayed. I am not in a mandatory evacuation zone. I am 10+ miles from a voluntary evacuation zone. Again, I am the only person left on my block of over 50 houses.
Everyone that has paid an iot an iota of attention knows that the freeways have been gridlocked for over two days. Let me tell you why.
The city and state government have done an incredible job of getting the people that need to leave town out of town. For every one person that needed to evacuate, there are probably five that left that didn't need to. As I said before, there are over 50 houses on my block. Since I'm the only one that left, that means probably 40+ cars got on the highway that didn't have to. And they got to the road ways before and at the same time so many others needed to leave. ad to leave. This is the reason the freeways are gridlocked. This is the reason there is no gas. This is the reason why people have run out of gas on the freeways. It sucks.
I live 60 miles from the coast. People heard the hurricane might come to Houston and they dropped everything and left. I picked up baby joggers, swings, flagpoles, benches and rocking chairs, baseball bats, 2x4's from homes being built down the street (tons of other things). So many things that could have been turned into 50+ MPH missles and put them in my garage. People didn't take one minute to think about the process. It was complete pandemonium.
Is it any wonder why so many fled? After seeing Katrina? No. Please. For those of you who ever find yourselves in a situation like this-----Maintain your composure-----Think about the benefits of your actions versus the costs, to yourself and to others---Think about how your actions affect those around you-----Do not, in your haste, forget that others may face far graver danger than you and need the right and time to leave before you, to get what they need before you or ask for it first.
This is just a rant.