The Mother of all Traffic Jams
The traffic everyone is experiancing yesterday and today is monumental, common travel times are 12 hours for 50 miles are reported as being pretty common. Cars are running out of gas, and engines are overheating. Cities and Countys have ordered mandatory evacuations. There doesn't seem to have been much concideration to the fact that the roads just can't handle an evacuation of this size. The photos here were taken outside my hotel. Most of the people in the traffic have been on the road for many hours, and still have 50 or more miles to go. These are about 20 hour trips with no gas available. Hmmm. Beaumont is calling for evacuations to Luftkin, the same place all these people are going.
posted by Liberty @ 6:11 PM
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Cannot beleive your Public Safety people. Why were the roads not changed to 1 way north and west earlier?
Most people can walk 5 miles an hour, setting in a car for 10 hours and only going 30 miles is nuts!
What will happen next time the evac orders are given, no one will want to go because of the gridlock on the highways!
They did modify some of the major roads to all head out albiet a little late into the process. One issues they had to concider was leaving access for emergency vehicles. One of the roads I've mentioned, Highway 146, is only a 2 lane highway.
Hopefully they will have learned from this experience. An evacuation of this scale is completely unprecidented.
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