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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
You weren't watching. Houston could have done better. It took Houston a day to relaize it should let people drive out on both sides of the freeway. You are old enough to have gone to games at the old Oreiles (sp?) stadium aren't you? They had all lanes gone in before the game and all lanes going out after. I could have told Houston to do that from the start.
But the point is, a city's ability to get empty quickly is tied to population density and arteries. We aren't changing either.
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They were using contraflow lanes out of Galveston and south of the beltway on 45 as early as Wednesday.
I can tell you now that there's no way in hell, given the way the highway works in Chapel Hill, Brenham, Giddings and Elgin that would have worked on 290 (which is the highway I sort of paralleled in my evacuation route).
I think that the problem was they had no idea that as many people were going to evacuate as they did. They were aiming at getting the people from the coast out first, but everyone from the city took off, too.
Oh, and anyone who doesn't know how to drive on a highway (especially with regard to speed limits and common courtesy regarding the fast lane) shouldn't evacuate and/or return to the city until everyone else has made it.
Goddamned motherfucker going 40 in the left lane next to someone else going 40 in the right lane outside of Elgin on Saturday night, I'm talking to you.
