Re: Interesting: Tracking the Evacuation of Hurricane Rita

[Nick FitzGerald <nick () virus-l demon co uk>]

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

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