Its making landfall - are people still stuck on the roads?

[Skip Intro]

None of the channels seem to be saying.

Last I heard the roads were clogged, at a standstill. Out of gas.

Did all that get resolved, or is it just not being reported?

[fleabert]

1. I haven't heard either.

:shrug:

I hope everyone is safe.

[chalky]

2. I asked the same question

here.

No one has word. No reporters are covering it. All reporters I've seen so far have interrupted their regularly scheduled flying-debris programming to give carefully worded statements praising the evacuations of the cities.
Looks like their brief foray into real reporting is over.

[expatriot]

3. give the reporters a break for tonight.... they're hunkered down.

when day breaks tomorrow is when we will see if they plan on real reporting or not.

[chalky]

4. If by "hunkered down" you mean standing in horizontal rain and

waxing on in pornographic detail about each shingle that flies off the roof of the Dairy Queen, then following that up with a fawning report of how every vehicle down to a skateboard was utilized to empty the city into a ghost-town, then...okay.

[pnorman]

5. the roads seem to be anything but clogged at present.

http://www.transguide.dot.state.tx.us/Traffic/allcameras.php

But I'm not sure that now would be a good time to be out on those roads.

pnorman

[chalky]

7. Aren't all these shots within the greater Houston area?

I thought all hell broke loose OUTSIDE of the Houston area.

[pnorman]

8. you're right!

and I was exercizing poor judgement by posting without thinking it out thoroughly.

pnorman

[Junkdrawer]

6. We have video of a 100 mile traffic jam, then, as if by a miracle...

assurances from Texas Republican pols that "no one is stuck on the highway", and finally anecdotal posts from DUers that there are huge numbers of folks stuck on the highways and that the media is lying...

:think:

Somehow, I'm inclined to believe the DUers...

[SillyGoose]

9. I have been worried about this as well and I haven't heard anything

about it either. I hope those people managed to make it to safety before the worst of the storm moved in. I don't want to imagine people stuck on a freeway during a hurricane.

This evacuation process will cause people to think twice before leaving next time. Its time for us to make sure all newly constructed public buildings, schools, arenas, etc are built strongly enough to be used as community shelters. Its painfully obvious that mass evacuations of large areas cannot be done in a short time so we need to find alternatives.