Hovering over Cedric Floyds House

This is also a factor of people from the coastal regions being unfamiliar with the roads. I had to go into work today to put the servers to bed. I live in Cypress (right next to the parking lot that is 290) and work across town in Stafford (right next to its twin on 59) My normal 25 minute commute was 45 minutes because I used the side streets and dodged gridlock when it appeared. If I wanted to go to Austin It'd take me 4 hours, having to U turn out of a couple jams.

Finally, I've got to mention that when I saw the evacuees at the closed Randall's supermarket parking lot at Barker-Cypress@290 - well it was a miniSuperdome in the making. Hygiene and littering were not issues with them, and overheard conversations indicated to me that they were cognitively challenged. Race wasn't an issue, there were plenty of poor and dumb whites and Hispanics to go around.

For those evacuating, the whole enterprise is a game of who can find the least congested bridge over the Brazos. My money would be on 159. Those headed North face even easier tasks, as they don't have river crossings to deal with.

Traffic came to a standstill and gas shortages were reported Thursday as hundreds of thousands of pe

How I cherish my memory of the days I believed only left-wingers suffered from ressentiment.

You sure you know what that word means Jim?

I blame the car companies. If they would have developed the flying cars they keep promising us, then all these people could have just flown away not even needing roads.

Damn you to hell, GM!

Some from surrounding areas are blaming City of Houston officials, arguing that the truly coastal zones under mandatory evacuation orders ought to have been allowed to complete their evacuation before more-inland Houstonians hit the roads. I'm unpersuaded by that: the City couldn't responsibly urge Houstonians to delay evacuating; the media is certainly whipping up panic without regard to evac zones or city or county lines; and after the Katrina experience and publicity, lots of Houstonians who'd have stuck it out (or at least waited a bit longer before evac'g) were figuring "Hey, I'll hit the road at 3am when traffic's light." Well, at 3am traffic was still gridlocked.

Well isn’t everything the fault of ChimpyMcShrubBushitlerHalliburton?

...and starts the blame game already.