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Re: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita
From: Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 12:09:57 +1200
ferg wrote:
Wow. [snip] As I posted here, my brother and his family are enroute from their home in League City, TX to our home in Austin. They left their house yesterday at 7:00 p.m. Total distance driven: 109 miles Total time of drive: 13 hours [snip] Wow. http://urbangrounds.com/2005/09/22/tracking-the-evacution-of-hurricane-rita/
That matches very closely with the experiences of a New Zealander I heard interviewed by phone on local TV a couple of hours ago. At the time of the interview it was 14 hours since he left Galveston (or just North of there -- I forget the placename he said) and they had covered just over 100 miles. He said the whole evacuation was being hindered by the gas shortages and cars running out of gas on the freeways. During the worst of the snarl-ups he said many folk were turning their engines off despite the heat (close to 100F) and when actually moving they weren't using their air-con, both to save gas consumption. He also said that many folk with small cars or large numbers of people in their vehicles were simply pushing their cars when in the big snarls and only inching along. Also, there are no toilet facilities so people are just getting out of their cars and going along the sides of the freeways -- that will likely present an interesting polution issue of its in the post-event clean-up... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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- Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Sep 22)
- Re: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita Nick FitzGerald (Sep 22)
- Re: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah (Sep 22)
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- RE: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita McGuffin, Tim (Sep 22)
- RE: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita Fergie (Paul Ferguson) (Sep 22)
- RE: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita McGuffin, Tim (Sep 22)
- Re: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita Nick FitzGerald (Sep 22)