I think Houston is doing a fine job getting 2.5 million people out of

[Saphire]

the area....remember, Texas already had 250,000 extra people from Katrina and with all the evacuations from Port Arthur to Corpus Christy...lot's of people to move...but believe it or not, the traffic is beginning to clear south of town, and in about 18-24 hours, everyone will be out that wants out.

[0007]

1. I thought Houston was around 4 Mill?

Are they moving all the folks from the medical center? M.D. Anderson and the rest of em?

They are doing a good job.

[Saphire]

4. some have left MD Anderson, but not all. My sister works there,

and has decided to stay in the hospital thru the storm.

[0007]

14. Thanks. Hope your sister stays safe and the cafeteria has plenty

of food.

[LeftHander]

2. Imagine being evacuated twice!

Heartbreaking....

[karlrschneider]

3. All I'm seeing on TV is a 50 mile long parking lot. People running out of

gas on I45 trying to go north.

[Saphire]

6. yeah, that's true. But look at the traffic coming in from Galveston

and vicinity. It's a ghost town down 45 south.

[karlrschneider]

11. Yeah, well I imagine a lot of Galvestonians are sitting & sweating on

the freeway where nothing is moving. I have to say *I* am not impressed...

[DoYouEverWonder]

17. Galveston only has 60,000 people

and it's a barrier island. Most people on barrier islands have been through enough canes to know the drill. Especially now that the forecasting has gotten so much more accurate.

[smartvoter]

5. From what I see on TV, they didn't open the southbound lanes and

people are idling out of gas.

[converted_democrat]

7. What about all the people at the lined up at the Greyhound Station

without any money? They chained the doors closed so people would not rip the place apart. Do they have a plan to get those people out?

[smartvoter]

8. And all the AWOL employees at the airport? nt

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. Well New Orleans evacuated 80%

with a population that has 100,000 households without cars and no help from HS/FEMA.

Your point?

[smartvoter]

10. I would like to see your question answered. nt

[GOPAgainstGW]

12. Houston Is Doing A Horrible Job & I Live Here! - eom

[smartvoter]

13. We know. We can see it's a clusterf**k.

People are out of gas because they didn't open the inbound freeway lanes to outbound traffic.

I don't get threads like this.

[GOPAgainstGW]

15. I'm Also A Republican, LOL - eom

[Saphire]

19. then tell me, what kind of orderly evac of 2.5 mil people would you

like to see???

[GOPAgainstGW]

22. Open the Damn Contra Flow Lanes on I-45N STILL NOT DONE!..

from current Transtar photos. The public officials have lied their ass off on TV that this is done but yet it's not. I would start with that first. Thanks.

[GOPAgainstGW]

23. Reroute traffic to the Hardy Tollway-& Contra Flow Convert-NOT DONE!...

Those are the cities only two main feeders north and the clowns at City Hall and TXDOT did nothing but a fraudulent talk show on the damn problem!

[smartvoter]

25. How about opening up the other side of the freeway for city exit so the

people could get out without sitting there running out of gas.

Or in other words, the very thing everyone is jumping up and down about...

[NNN0LHI]

16. People were patting themselves on the back BEFORE Katrina hit too

Might be better to wait a couple of days for the compliments and see what happens?

Don

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. Exactly

Even after the storm passes, it takes a day or so to find out you really got it.

I remember when Andrew hit Miami and all the weather heads were bragging about how the storm was no big deal, while down in Homestead it was like a nuke went off and none of them had a clue.

[incapsulated]

20. WTF?

Hello? They didn't open the southbound lanes until like an hour ago? People have been sitting in traffic for 15 hours and there is NO GAS? It took people 19 hours to get to Austin?

If this is a "fine job" I wouldn't want to have to be there when they fuck it up.

[GumboYaYa]

21. I know several people who are refusing to leave.

Just b/c it looks liek a lot of people, there will be thousands if not tens of thousands who stay and ride outthe storm.

[flamingyouth]

24. Tell that to my boyfriend's parents.

They're still stuck there and there's no gas at any of the stations near them.