"The Cone of Uncertainty"
Omg. That cracks me up every time. Who came up with that?
So this is what happened...
We left our house, which is a little south of Houston, at 5:00 am this morning. We sat in the car 14 hours and only made it past Mattress Mac on 45 North. FOURTEEN HOURS!! And we didn't even get near the edge of Houston. The cats are crying, my dad's truck was overheating, no gas ANYWHERE, and there were no hotel rooms from Houston to Oklahoma. People were skateboarding down 45. People were passing out on the side of the roads. People were getting rear ended left and right, including myself. Long lines in disgusting non air conditioned bathrooms in barrios, no food, no wind, and record breaking heat.
So we said, "FUCK IT!" and we turned around. It took us 25-30 minutes to get home. 14 hours going, 30 min coming back. People are stranded because the highways are basically parking lots. It was chaos. Long, boring, hot, chaos (if that makes sense). Now the news is saying for everyone to come back home if you can. If the traffic stays like this people are going to be stuck on the bridge when the wind and rain starts tomorrow. They told everyone to leave so they didn't prepare any shelters, but no one can leave! The storm is moving 9mph and traffic is less than 1mph. On the way home it looked like a ghost town. Cars were piled up on the sides of the road like carcasses.
We might drive south tomorrow depending on if this thing turns back on track or not. We didn't prepare to stay so we're low on food, batteries and all that good stuff. Who knows how long we'll be trapped in the house, if we're trapped at all. We'll see!!!
P.S. I have class with this little Mexican girl who said that the storm is following the people who brought sin from New Orleans. HA!
So this is what happened...
We left our house, which is a little south of Houston, at 5:00 am this morning. We sat in the car 14 hours and only made it past Mattress Mac on 45 North. FOURTEEN HOURS!! And we didn't even get near the edge of Houston. The cats are crying, my dad's truck was overheating, no gas ANYWHERE, and there were no hotel rooms from Houston to Oklahoma. People were skateboarding down 45. People were passing out on the side of the roads. People were getting rear ended left and right, including myself. Long lines in disgusting non air conditioned bathrooms in barrios, no food, no wind, and record breaking heat.
So we said, "FUCK IT!" and we turned around. It took us 25-30 minutes to get home. 14 hours going, 30 min coming back. People are stranded because the highways are basically parking lots. It was chaos. Long, boring, hot, chaos (if that makes sense). Now the news is saying for everyone to come back home if you can. If the traffic stays like this people are going to be stuck on the bridge when the wind and rain starts tomorrow. They told everyone to leave so they didn't prepare any shelters, but no one can leave! The storm is moving 9mph and traffic is less than 1mph. On the way home it looked like a ghost town. Cars were piled up on the sides of the road like carcasses.
We might drive south tomorrow depending on if this thing turns back on track or not. We didn't prepare to stay so we're low on food, batteries and all that good stuff. Who knows how long we'll be trapped in the house, if we're trapped at all. We'll see!!!
P.S. I have class with this little Mexican girl who said that the storm is following the people who brought sin from New Orleans. HA!