No.
Obviously, we need to install a vacuum-tube system like at banks to "chute" entire families out of town. Just drop the tube in the slot, hit "send," and chute yourself to the city of your choice.
Considering this is the biggest evacuation ever attempted in US history, we didn't do too bad.
Not one word about this from the lame stream media. They want to be able to blame the traffic jams on Texas officials. Won't do for the public to start seeing the difference in Texas and LA. They just have to find something to make Texas look bad. One info babe asked an official in Beaumont this morning how many looters did they have. He said none. No looters. She looked absolutely shocked. Instead of asking him IF they had any looters, she asks how many looters they had. I despise the media.
Pittsburgh could empty itself pretty quickly, unless the evacuation was on a weekend. They usually close some of the inbound and outbound parkway lanes for paving. Honestly, unless you own a hovercraft, no one is leaving Pittsburgh in an orderly or timely fashion.
It only took me six hours to get from League City to Austin.
Of course I left before noon on Wednesday. My employer reseased folks at noon., but if you hit the road promptly, you still would have beat the crush out of the evacuation areas.
The problem was made worse by nimrods in safe areas of Houston (Katy, Cypress, the Heights, the Woodlands, etc) that decided to leave for Dallas or Austin. Once you are fifty or so miles inland you are just as safe staying at home (assuming you do not live in a mobile home) as you are in Dallas or Austin. A tornado is just as likely to take the roof off the evacuation center you are in as off your house.
Jackson-Lee will use this to pimp for more government spending.
Perry will use this to pimp for his Trans-Texas Corridor.
Winter is coming, smug and pontificating, self aggrandizing, New England & NYC liberal types may get their comeuppance. A bad winter with many feet of snow and bitter cold could give them a real jolt of reality. If so, I for one have my answer ready for them and theirs; I could care less, where were your plans, why didn't you implement them, in short, go pound sand jerk offs.
Then there's this: In an age of terrorist danger and with memories of the nightmare in New Orleans still fresh, the Texas exodus raises a troubling question: Can any American city empty itself safely and quickly?
NO, DUMBASS. That's the whole point those of us spouting off about logistics since LA screwed up Katrina so bad have been trying to make to you morons in the press.
Then the next time some sort of hurricane hits, everybody can just teleport to some other city that is unaffected by the hurricane.
Teleportation is the answer. Either that, or build super-wide highways that are about a half mile wide. Wasn't Texas talking about building some of these wide roads?
Put her at the top of that list...
Side issue, but why does it take so many AP writers to complete a story?
"Houston, we have a problem". I know everybody thinks of that line in that Tom Hanks movie about NASA moon trip and that's fine and dandy I guess when folks are thinking about Houston, TX, but me? Heck no, I CAN'T STOP SINGING THAT RONNIE MILSAP TUNE ABOUT HOUSTON AND ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!!!!! (Houston Solution) LOL
I HAVE SOME FRIENDS DOWN IN HOUSTON
WHO KNOW ME QUITE WELL
THEY'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY
TO PUT ME UP FOR A SPELL
I CAN HANG OUT, OR HIDE OUT
WHICHEVER I CHOOSE
AND THEY WON'T ASK ME QUESTIONS
NOT WHILE I'VE GOT THE BLUES
I GOTTA HOUSTON SOLUTION IN MIND
ALL IT TAKES IS A CALL ON THE TELEPHONE LINE
I CAN LEAVE ALL THESE PROBLEMS IN NASHVILLE BEHIND
I GOTTA HOUSTON SOLUTION IN MIND
Love that Ronnie Milsap. Anybody heard anything about him lately?
You and the media don't need to worry about us, we can do that. If there is a dirty bomb attack, worry where you will get gas for a couple of years since the mid west, east, and far west are too good to refine their own.
290 WAS NOT turned into a one-way thoroughfare.
That plan was announced at 8am but 9 hours later they balked on the decision. They said that it was problematic (the traffic turn in Brenham) and that they wanted to keep the inbound to Houston side open for supplies (which from what I saw was nothing but buses, Houston STILL has a gas shortage nearly a week later).
And they left hundreds of buses in Cy Fair to send buses down from Austin.
The sheer longest part of the journey was just getting out of Houston. That took 12 hours.
Millions saw Mayor White fumble the ball.
And Hempstead closed their town to the travellers (and horded what gas they had).
The sheriffs blocked the entrances to their small town.
That can't be legal.
Someone's job should be lost over that "emergency" act of isolationism.