----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Land" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, September 23, 2005 11:53 AM Subject: Re: Evacuation
> On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:48 AM, Robert J. Chassell wrote: > > > According to the Houston Chronicle > > > > Does anyone know why it took so long for officials to start > contraflowing The physical process of doing the counterflow took longer than expected. The road out of Galveston was counter-flowed on Wednesday. Early esterday moring, it was agreed that the freeways leading W, NW, and N out of Houston (I-10, 290, & I-45) would be counterflowed. They started with I-45, but it took till afternoon to accomplish it. Cement barriers had to be moved, and the right equipment had to get there. Even after counterflow, it was a nightmare for a while. When I went out to I-45 with a neighbor water and cold drinks for the stranded moterists (stopped in the parking lot of shopping centers), I saw 8 lanes of bumper to bumper traffic going N (3 lanes of regular traffic, 3 lanes of counterflow, and 2 lanes of feeder road). It was traveling at about the 0.4 mph I mentioned earlier. I was happy to see that most people had enough water and that we had competition This morning, I went on a run with a friend and her kids to bring a couple loads of their stuff from their mobile home 20 miles N on I-45 from here to our house. The roads were only backed up in a few places, where the thru traffic narrowed to 1 lane for various reasons (a tanker truck in the right lane providing gas, or people in line to exit). There were a number of stranded moterists on the road, though. About an hour ago, my wife went out to see if anyone else was stuck....we had a member of our church who had two 10 gallon containers of gas. Everone was off the road. In some ways it was a very big mess. But, the roads were all clear about 12 hours before things are to get fairly bad here....so we have to say the evacuation worked. There was, also, a tremendous effort to get everyone without transportation or with special needs out. It looks as though it was fairly sucessful, the ones left behind were ones that were literally missed when people looked for them. Dan M. > those roads? It must have driven people crazy to sit for hours in that > sweltering heat, looking across the barrier at all those empty lanes. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
