Reply #6: No. It's serious. [View All]

[Igel]

At least a couple hundred thousand of the people that were stuck in traffic have no need to evacuate, probably most of them. They left because they were afraid; my wife and kid are gone because my mother-in-law is afraid, and she lives in Phx.

Hundreds of thousands needed to evacuate. But the roads, and the plans, didn't expect the incredible response rate that the *voluntarily* evacuation order triggered.

If they had, maybe they would have blocked off roads so people who wanted to avoid inconvenience and low risk wouldn't have interfered those that wanted to avoid high flood waters and high risk.

The east Texas counties had the exact same clog: the local authorities were cursing the idiots fled because they'd have had to dodge the occasional falling tree, but got in the way of thoe that had a longer evacuation, and were fleeing a likely 20 foot storm surge.