In a message dated 9/23/2005 7:05:13 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
GMcGrath@xxxxxxx writes:
Like you, I wonder if Bill was able to get out. My sister and her family
live in Kingwood, on the northeast side of Houston, and had to turn back and
go
home after being on the road for several hours and only going about 20 miles.
Due to a number of reasons we are still in Sugar Land, with our home and our
business prepared for the storm. The traffic has been unbelievable. I
talked to a cousin last night who has a place in Flatonia and lives a block off
Interstate 10. What would have been an hour and a half drive took him 16
hours.
Our neighbor left about 9:30 yesterday morning and almost made it across
town when the transmission went out in her 3 year old car. She got towed home
and got there about 8 PM last night.
On Tuesday it was almost impossible to get D batteries and there was no
bottled water to found. Wednesday it took 7 or 8 stops to find gasoline. One
place I started filling up and the pump turned off after $2.71 as it went dry.
I did finally get a full tank. Our daughter and son-in-law weren't able to
find gas at all for his government vehicle and the hotel in Dallas would not
hold his room past 6 AM, which I understand. They would never had made it to
Dallas by 6 AM.
Unlike New Orleans, IMHO, we did not, in Texas, have anyone doing anything
other than trying to get people out of town, so we were spared what looked like
political turf battles leading up to this storm. I'm sure there were be
criticism of how this evacuation was done by the Monday morning quarterbacks,
however as one in the midst of it, although a PITA, it seems to be going
pretty darn smoothly. There have been evacuees going through Sugar Land for
the
past three days on both Highway 6 and 90A and it has been both orderly and
slow.
Were we sit now is that we will probably stay here through the storm. A
break may come and we may leave, however it looks like we will be riding this
one out. This was not my first choice, however it is the one we have made.
I'll let you know how it goes. Bill Barber
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