Realistically speaking
09/22/2005 06:15 p.m.
I'm safer where I am now than trying to leave. If I were going to leave I would have needed to leave first thing yesterday morning, but I had to work. I'm still surprised my school district cancelled school today and tomorrow, I guarantee it was due to pressure from local and state government.

People are running out of gas sitting in gridlock, there have been cases of carbon monoxide poisoning on the freeways, heat exhuastion; etc. etc. I am not in a flood plan, my house is more than 75% brick... my car is a 98 Saturn (aka "rubbermaid") If I were to get stuck on the freeways as the storm was coming in, it would be much worse.

I worry for those that are on the freeways now. Part of the reason for the gridlock is that people didn't follow the evacuation plans, they left early, causing a back-up for those further south.

I worry for those that are living in manufactured/trailer homes. there will be huricane force winds as far as 200 miles inland, outer bands are known to produce tornados, I worry for those people who can't get out now because of traffic and no gas.

I don't blame anyone, our local officials have worked quickly and diligently to implement evacuations, even to the point of pissing off evacuees from LA by making them leave the shelters and evacuating them once again into Arkansas.

The way things look right now there is no place in TX from Galveston Bay to the Oklahoma border that will not get some kind of effects from this storm, and now it looks like Lake Charles, LA is gonna get the dirty side.

God watch over us all and keep us safe.
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