Interesting article, please read the entire piece:
http://www.nola.com/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_tporleans/archives/print082364.htmlExcerpt:
The New Orleans couple came to that conclusion about halfway through a 17-hour attempt to evacuate Houston on Thursday as Hurricane Rita headed for the Texas coast.
After about seven hours of baking inside their rental car in 95 degree heat on Interstate 45, they were out of food and water and had watched as their once-filled gas tank hit the "half" mark. Yet they were still inside metro Houston, no more than 35 miles from their starting point, and stuck in a line of traffic that appeared to stretch the entire 250 miles to Dallas - but was moving at inches-per-hour.
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"I think they could have taken page from Louisiana's book on this one," Monica Ponoroff said. "They should have called Kathleen Blanco and Ray Nagin and asked them 'How do we evacuate a city?' because they sure didn't have a clue.
"Eventually we gave up. We turned around and went back to the apartment. And that took us three hours. What a mess."
The Ponoroffs' ordeal is one of millions that will be told about what could be the greatest traffic jam in American history. They never saw it coming.
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