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tpmemo says:
Galveston and all the coast was successfully evacuated but Wednesday night there occured throughout Houston a simultaneous mass (hysterical) evacuation. All the freeways and highways leaving Houston are at a dead standstill as of 11am Thursday. People have been in their vehicles as long as 12 hours without traveling more than 40 miles. Now they are running out of gas and there will soon be another chaotic storm evacuation situation. The local government and the mayor of Houston don't seem to realize that cars need gas and folks need facilities. The city has waited too long to open all freeway lanes to outbound traffic. The truth is, the feds, state, and locals do not know how to evacuate a major metropolitan area. Another catastrophe is only a day away.
This is one of the reasons why I have a motorcycle with hard bags. I can split lanes through dead-stopped traffic and get almost 200 miles away before I need to fill up.
Of course if I was really serious I'd be like creech and get an Adventure 950 with a 6-gallon tank. Or even better: a 96mpg M1030M1 (converted KLR) that runs off-road on Diesel or JP8 aviation kerosene and goes 400 miles between fill-ups. In any real worst-case scenario the military are going to be the ones who run out of gasoline last, and something that runs on their fuel could be Very Useful.
Galveston and all the coast was successfully evacuated but Wednesday night there occured throughout Houston a simultaneous mass (hysterical) evacuation. All the freeways and highways leaving Houston are at a dead standstill as of 11am Thursday. People have been in their vehicles as long as 12 hours without traveling more than 40 miles. Now they are running out of gas and there will soon be another chaotic storm evacuation situation. The local government and the mayor of Houston don't seem to realize that cars need gas and folks need facilities. The city has waited too long to open all freeway lanes to outbound traffic. The truth is, the feds, state, and locals do not know how to evacuate a major metropolitan area. Another catastrophe is only a day away.
This is one of the reasons why I have a motorcycle with hard bags. I can split lanes through dead-stopped traffic and get almost 200 miles away before I need to fill up.
Of course if I was really serious I'd be like creech and get an Adventure 950 with a 6-gallon tank. Or even better: a 96mpg M1030M1 (converted KLR) that runs off-road on Diesel or JP8 aviation kerosene and goes 400 miles between fill-ups. In any real worst-case scenario the military are going to be the ones who run out of gasoline last, and something that runs on their fuel could be Very Useful.