Bill, (NSURIT), wrote
> Due to a number of reasons we are still in Sugar Land, with our home and our
> business prepared for the storm. The traffic has been unbelievable. I talked
> to a cousin last night who has a place in Flatonia and lives a block off
> Interstate 10. What would have been an hour and a half drive took him 16
> hours.
> Our neighbor left about 9:30 yesterday morning and almost made it across
> town
> when the transmission went out in her 3 year old car. She got towed home and
> got there about 8 PM last night.
>
> On Tuesday it was almost impossible to get D batteries and there was no
> bottled water to found. Wednesday it took 7 or 8 stops to find gasoline.
> One
> place I started filling up and the pump turned off after $2.71 as it went
> dry.
> I did finally get a full tank. Our daughter and son-in-law weren't able to
> find gas at all for his government vehicle and the hotel in Dallas would not
> hold his room past 6 AM, which I understand. They would never had made it to
> Dallas by 6 AM.
>
> Unlike New Orleans, IMHO, we did not, in Texas, have anyone doing anything
> other than trying to get people out of town, so we were spared what looked
> like
> political turf battles leading up to this storm. I'm sure there were be
> criticism of how this evacuation was done by the Monday morning quarterbacks,
> however as one in the midst of it, although a PITA, it seems to be going
> pretty
> darn smoothly. There have been evacuees going through Sugar Land for the
> past
> three days on both Highway 6 and 90A and it has been both orderly and slow.
>
> Were we sit now is that we will probably stay here through the storm. A
> break may come and we may leave, however it looks like we will be riding this
> one out. This was not my first choice, however it is the one we have made.
> I'll let you know how it goes. Bill Barber
>
Best wishes Bill. Glad you made it back home OK. Hope all your
preparations hold good, and the wind stays away.
Brian.
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