I was a Senior in high school and I will never forget, Katrina hit Louisiana and then right after, Rita came behind her and we had to leave. Worst time in my life, my mother was in the ICU, my dad left me and my sister and we were forced to leave with the neighbor, all the way to Georgia. Definitely something I will never forget in my life.
That sounds downright harrowing!! Everything bad always happens in September, I've noticed. I certainly hope you are doing much better now. This is coming from a stranger in the Houston area, who had to deal with the evacuation nightmare only to make it to Warren, TX!! I was trying to get to the Dallas area but the traffic became too unbearable to continue.
+James Cooke I was a child at the time, I told my parents not to get us to go...because there was a chance that the storm could come in and we be in traffic... We stayed during hurricane ike as well under my choice of course. I actually fell asleep so I didn't get to know what happened. I did wake up for 3 seconds hearing the tree bainging into my home but fell back a sleep soon after to the soothing sounds of high winds. When I woke up there was pure silence as I walked out....I looked at the destruction around me... i had photos but I lost them, uploaded them to megaupload thinking it would stay there forever lol.
Yeah. It wasn't most actually, I thought the death toll was higher, but 24 of the 100 were in one incident. www.chron.com/news/hurricanes/article/24-nursing-home-evacuees-die-in-bus-fire-1946742.php
Same. We were going to leave for Ike, but my sister was pregnant with her first child and was going to give birth at any day, and having a baby in the middle of a traffic jam during an evacuation didn't seem like a great idea. So stayed and we got through the storm.
I was 19 when we evacuated from the Baytown area all the way up to Austin. It took us 13 hours smh. They didn't let my dad off until that Friday morning (they had to shut the chemical plant down). But we stayed for Ike and that was my first hurricane. No power for 2 weeks, and of course, mama and I were here for Harvey (dad's been deceased since 2012), and we wish he was here with us. Mama and I were a nervous wreck for Harvey smh.
No, I was smart enough to know anyone not along the coast didn't need to evacuate. Anyone north of I-10 that got on the roads only made it harder for people that really needed to evacuate. What it comes down to is people spazed out because they saw what happened with Katrina. Houston isn't New Orleans, there was no levees to break. Had Houston got a direct hit it would have been like Ike, damage to trees and roofs, but homes would have remained in tact.
billybassman21 Same here with my family here in Florida for Irma people were so scared because of what happened with Harvey a few weeks earlier so they freaked out and left. But I definitely agree that unless you live in the Keys or near the coast you should just stay and ride it out. I remember on TV watching the traffic on I-95 move at turtle speed for Irma. Plus leaving and then getting back is a pain. I am 17 and I remember I was 5 during the really busy 2005 season. We have never left for a Hurricane in our lifetime. I think Irma beat the record Rita once held for the largest evacuation ever for a Hurricane.
I was 5, and in Pre-K when this happened. It happened 2 weeks after I turned 5. Me, and my family were in this traffic, but I don't remember being in it. My mom told we were in this traffic, and I was getting bored, I was falling asleep, waking up every while. But what I do remember is that we ended up sleeping somewhere outside kinda' close to some apartment complexes, and the day after we went to Waco, Texas at an hotel, and we stayed there for like 2 days, I think.🤔
I was not in that traffic...I was about maybe 16 and I told my parents "Would you rather die in traffic or bunker down here?" I used the same logic for ike as well. except for ike we didnt have electricity for two weeks and i just came out for surgery.
I was 10 years old when Hurricane Rita happened. This was the first hurricane I experienced in my life, before this I did not know what a hurricane was and what was it about until I gotten older. My family and I stayed at a convention center for shelter when the hurricane made landfall here in Houston, I was in the 5th grade at the time of this storm.
I left Cypress/Champions Forest at 9am. I arrived in Dallas at 11pm that evening. It took me 9 hours to drive 20 miles. And I tried going back roads. The mother of all traffic jams.
It took us three days to get from Texas City to Dallas and our neighbor who left about four hours earlier made it within four hours. I was about nine years old and am still super traumatized.
I was in this traffic, me and my family left at night and didn't arrive at Dallas until the next day at night. Was a nightmare, I had to pee in a water bottle. The only time I felt relaxed is when we stopped at a McDonald's. A usual 3 hour drive took almost 20 hour. We didn't even stay in Dallas for long, just spent the night at one of my mom's friends house and went back home. We arrived home in Houston with nothing but wasted time and shame. All that panic for nothing. :(
This happened weeks after going back to school and I had started the 7th grade. I remember the day our family evacuated with our cousins, aunts and uncles. We left around 8 am and got on the 610 and I 10. God that was hell being in that traffic! Sitting in the car for hours, all day, it was hot too, slow movement on the 10. We had to camp out in our cars on the feeder due to the hotels we came across having no vacancy. Just when you thought they were moving faster and there'd be no more slow driving, WRONG! Only time I felt relaxed was when we had pulled over and got out the car at a Slick Willie's. We ended up going to Austin and stayed with some old friend of my mom and auntie. I missed an episode of Smackdown because of that hurricane.
I was 5, and in Pre-K when this happened. It happened 2 weeks after I turned 5. Me, and my family were in this traffic, but I don't remember being in it. My mom told we were in this traffic, and I was getting bored, I was falling asleep, waking up every while. But what I do remember is that we ended up sleeping somewhere outside kinda' close to some apartment complexes, and the day after we went to Waco, Texas at an hotel, and we stayed there for like 2 days, I think.🤔
Unless you lived along the coast your families were very ignorant to hurricanes and the topography of Houston. Unless you're along the coast there is no need to evacuate. Just ride the storm out and stay away from windows. Even if Rita hit Houston and Galveston directly it wouldn't have been much different than Ike. Homes in Texas are built to withstand hurricanes.
Armando Loaeza I had just started 8th grade. I live in south Louisiana. And the evacuation for Katrina was similar. Everybody trying to leave at one time. Although we stayed home for Rita. We still had a tarp on our roof from damages from Katrina. What a terrible year for hurricanes.
I was 10 when we stayed in beamont. Took us 7 days to get to austin. Biggest traffic jam I've ever seen and gas was running out. It was crazy. Had to stay at a school when the storm passed at night
Rita was supposed to go to Houstn Texas and that's why they were all headed to Louisiana.....but the storm suddenly changed it's coarse and came to us in Louisiana so we had to evacuate on the Gulf coast! The storm was devastating! I returned back to my home city of Lake Charles, Louisiana 5 days after the hurricane made landfall and as I drove closer to the city it was unrecognizable! It was as if a bomb exploded! The hurricane was in September so all of the leaves are still on the trees and still green in Louisiana at that time of year. Well, the trees that were still standing did not have a leaf left on them! To see all of the fallen trees snapped like twigs is something that I will never forget. Houses were heavily damaged and no one had a backyard fence. Thankfully, we recovered quickly and the city currently has the highest economic developments of any MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) in the nation with $117 worth of projects in the development stage.
Gov Rick Perry told the people living in Port Bolivar to stay home and ride just ride it out. There was nothing but foundations left after the hurricane. The state of Texas is still keep the number killed or missing a secret.
We waited until the day after and drove West along I-10 to 71 and then up to OKC (I was newly pregnant). The shoulders of I-10 were lined with cars out of gas.
I always wondered why people in Houston automatically evacuated north to Dallas when they could just go west to Austin or SA too and you wouldn’t have that embarrassment moment where people would rather risk their life at home then be evacuate and make it to a destination in a decent time.
It was the same on ALL freeways and roads out of Houston. I tried to go out I-10 East at 2AM and gridlock. So, what you see was typical on all roads at all hours. NEVER again. When Ike came toward us I stayed home but poer was lost for 14 days. You can't win.
@@Melody615199999 to be fair I think the rita evacuation was so chaotic because people were so scared after Katrina so everyone rushed out all at once.
Cameron was wiped off of the map and Lake Charles looked like a bomb exploded! I live in Lake Charles and it was a horrific storm. But I think all of the other people are talking about the traffic jam leaving the Houston area and the hurricane didn't even go there because it suddenly changed it's coarse. Traffic leaving Lake Charles was a nightmare too.
3 ;9/23/2013 ;3,834 ;24 ;1:38 ; R/Largest storm of the Gulf Of Mexico & 4th n Atlantic & largest Evacuation n usa. Most costly storm of all time for K. Deaths 1800+ & 120killed.
visa checkout comm; If u take the date Rita made landfall & the UTC + The day & UTC of Katrina, it = the Rapture/D/Day. 9/24/05' at 0740 & 8/29/05' at 1110UTC.
James Merkel I live in Palestine. I remember this event. We were just recovering from Katrina. Had a lot of refugees from that, and a lot that stayed. But this was something else. It felt like the entire population of Houston was evacuating through our little town. We had New York esqe traffic jams. It usually took 10-15 minutes to get from school to my house. It tookus between an hour to an hour and a half one day.
I found a party n play buddy at a motel in east texas and spent the whole evacuation spun out of my mind slamming tina and getting slammed haha, vote Biden 2024
It was terrible, it took 24 hours to get to Dallas. Usually takes 3 to 4 hours.
We’re you in the evacuation traffic from that storm?
It took us 10 hours to get to Columbus.
I was a Senior in high school and I will never forget, Katrina hit Louisiana and then right after, Rita came behind her and we had to leave. Worst time in my life, my mother was in the ICU, my dad left me and my sister and we were forced to leave with the neighbor, all the way to Georgia. Definitely something I will never forget in my life.
That sounds downright harrowing!! Everything bad always happens in September, I've noticed. I certainly hope you are doing much better now. This is coming from a stranger in the Houston area, who had to deal with the evacuation nightmare only to make it to Warren, TX!! I was trying to get to the Dallas area but the traffic became too unbearable to continue.
100 of the 120 killed were a side effect of the evacuation, WoW!
+James Cooke I was a child at the time, I told my parents not to get us to go...because there was a chance that the storm could come in and we be in traffic... We stayed during hurricane ike as well under my choice of course. I actually fell asleep so I didn't get to know what happened. I did wake up for 3 seconds hearing the tree bainging into my home but fell back a sleep soon after to the soothing sounds of high winds. When I woke up there was pure silence as I walked out....I looked at the destruction around me... i had photos but I lost them, uploaded them to megaupload thinking it would stay there forever lol.
Most of the 100 were in one incident, where a bus evacuating seniors exploded near Dallas.
Domenick Rafter - Do you have proof of this? I've never heard that before.
Yeah. It wasn't most actually, I thought the death toll was higher, but 24 of the 100 were in one incident. www.chron.com/news/hurricanes/article/24-nursing-home-evacuees-die-in-bus-fire-1946742.php
One of my friend's brother died during the evacuation on Sept 22. Not sure how but I believe it was a car crash.
Left for Rita, stayed for Ike. They both harmed my life.
Same. We were going to leave for Ike, but my sister was pregnant with her first child and was going to give birth at any day, and having a baby in the middle of a traffic jam during an evacuation didn't seem like a great idea. So stayed and we got through the storm.
I stayed for both During Rita my lights came back on the next day During Ike me and my wife were in the dark for a month
Bro same. Glad it wasn’t the other way around!
I was 19 when we evacuated from the Baytown area all the way up to Austin. It took us 13 hours smh. They didn't let my dad off until that Friday morning (they had to shut the chemical plant down). But we stayed for Ike and that was my first hurricane. No power for 2 weeks, and of course, mama and I were here for Harvey (dad's been deceased since 2012), and we wish he was here with us. Mama and I were a nervous wreck for Harvey smh.
I was in this traffic
everyone was
No, I was smart enough to know anyone not along the coast didn't need to evacuate. Anyone north of I-10 that got on the roads only made it harder for people that really needed to evacuate. What it comes down to is people spazed out because they saw what happened with Katrina. Houston isn't New Orleans, there was no levees to break. Had Houston got a direct hit it would have been like Ike, damage to trees and roofs, but homes would have remained in tact.
billybassman21 Same here with my family here in Florida for Irma people were so scared because of what happened with Harvey a few weeks earlier so they freaked out and left. But I definitely agree that unless you live in the Keys or near the coast you should just stay and ride it out. I remember on TV watching the traffic on I-95 move at turtle speed for Irma. Plus leaving and then getting back is a pain. I am 17 and I remember I was 5 during the really busy 2005 season. We have never left for a Hurricane in our lifetime. I think Irma beat the record Rita once held for the largest evacuation ever for a Hurricane.
billybassman21 So I guess Harvey didn’t teach Houston a lesson huh?
Omg I know you from Greenville beta!
I was 5, and in Pre-K when this happened. It happened 2 weeks after I turned 5. Me, and my family were in this traffic, but I don't remember being in it. My mom told we were in this traffic, and I was getting bored, I was falling asleep, waking up every while. But what I do remember is that we ended up sleeping somewhere outside kinda' close to some apartment complexes, and the day after we went to Waco, Texas at an hotel, and we stayed there for like 2 days, I think.🤔
I was not in that traffic...I was about maybe 16 and I told my parents "Would you rather die in traffic or bunker down here?" I used the same logic for ike as well. except for ike we didnt have electricity for two weeks and i just came out for surgery.
I was 10 years old when Hurricane Rita happened. This was the first hurricane I experienced in my life, before this I did not know what a hurricane was and what was it about until I gotten older. My family and I stayed at a convention center for shelter when the hurricane made landfall here in Houston, I was in the 5th grade at the time of this storm.
I left Cypress/Champions Forest at 9am. I arrived in Dallas at 11pm that evening. It took me 9 hours to drive 20 miles. And I tried going back roads. The mother of all traffic jams.
I was one of the many headed north on 45! Took me 22hours to get to Fort Worth
This storm was one of my first memories.
it took us 19 hrs to get from texas city to houston 290...was a 3rd world experience!
I live in the 3rd world and my experience is sun, beach and vodika everyday! Idk why it would be a 3rd world experience
It took us three days to get from Texas City to Dallas and our neighbor who left about four hours earlier made it within four hours. I was about nine years old and am still super traumatized.
I was in this traffic, me and my family left at night and didn't arrive at Dallas until the next day at night. Was a nightmare, I had to pee in a water bottle. The only time I felt relaxed is when we stopped at a McDonald's. A usual 3 hour drive took almost 20 hour. We didn't even stay in Dallas for long, just spent the night at one of my mom's friends house and went back home. We arrived home in Houston with nothing but wasted time and shame. All that panic for nothing. :(
This happened weeks after going back to school and I had started the 7th grade. I remember the day our family evacuated with our cousins, aunts and uncles. We left around 8 am and got on the 610 and I 10. God that was hell being in that traffic! Sitting in the car for hours, all day, it was hot too, slow movement on the 10. We had to camp out in our cars on the feeder due to the hotels we came across having no vacancy. Just when you thought they were moving faster and there'd be no more slow driving, WRONG! Only time I felt relaxed was when we had pulled over and got out the car at a Slick Willie's. We ended up going to Austin and stayed with some old friend of my mom and auntie. I missed an episode of Smackdown because of that hurricane.
I was gonna say the same thing about Smackdown. I was a huge fan back then of WWE.
I was 5, and in Pre-K when this happened. It happened 2 weeks after I turned 5. Me, and my family were in this traffic, but I don't remember being in it. My mom told we were in this traffic, and I was getting bored, I was falling asleep, waking up every while. But what I do remember is that we ended up sleeping somewhere outside kinda' close to some apartment complexes, and the day after we went to Waco, Texas at an hotel, and we stayed there for like 2 days, I think.🤔
Unless you lived along the coast your families were very ignorant to hurricanes and the topography of Houston. Unless you're along the coast there is no need to evacuate. Just ride the storm out and stay away from windows. Even if Rita hit Houston and Galveston directly it wouldn't have been much different than Ike. Homes in Texas are built to withstand hurricanes.
Armando Loaeza I had just started 8th grade. I live in south Louisiana. And the evacuation for Katrina was similar. Everybody trying to leave at one time. Although we stayed home for Rita. We still had a tarp on our roof from damages from Katrina. What a terrible year for hurricanes.
@@lsunationalchamps08 indeed it was.
I was 10 when we stayed in beamont. Took us 7 days to get to austin. Biggest traffic jam I've ever seen and gas was running out. It was crazy. Had to stay at a school when the storm passed at night
Constantly stopping & going.. hour after hour, it was insane!
For scale how bad it was it took us about 24hrs to get to Austin from Houston. Normally it would be just under 3hrs.
Rita was supposed to go to Houstn Texas and that's why they were all headed to Louisiana.....but the storm suddenly changed it's coarse and came to us in Louisiana so we had to evacuate on the Gulf coast! The storm was devastating! I returned back to my home city of Lake Charles, Louisiana 5 days after the hurricane made landfall and as I drove closer to the city it was unrecognizable! It was as if a bomb exploded! The hurricane was in September so all of the leaves are still on the trees and still green in Louisiana at that time of year. Well, the trees that were still standing did not have a leaf left on them! To see all of the fallen trees snapped like twigs is something that I will never forget. Houses were heavily damaged and no one had a backyard fence. Thankfully, we recovered quickly and the city currently has the highest economic developments of any MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) in the nation with $117 worth of projects in the development stage.
I hope I never die trying to evacuate from a hurricane.
This is one I will never leave again
Lived NOLA. Never again will I live in an hurricane zone.
Gov Rick Perry told the people living in Port Bolivar to stay home and ride just ride it out. There was nothing but foundations left after the hurricane. The state of Texas is still keep the number killed or missing a secret.
CONTACT THE POWER RANGERS AT ONCE!
Was blues skies 4 me. Right direction!
I was the last fuel hauler to load out of Motiva,took me 17 hrs to get from Beaumont to Jasper!!!
I was leaving my girlfriend's house it took me 7 hours to get home
Lmao my name is Rita and I’m like wtf there is a hurricane Rita xD
Louisiana was hit bad too, my family’s house completely flooded when they lived in Monroe. And it caused flooding in my area aswell
We waited until the day after and drove West along I-10 to 71 and then up to OKC (I was newly pregnant). The shoulders of I-10 were lined with cars out of gas.
I remember this. I was a child. It's funny because we came to find not a damn thing happened.
All that shit for nothing that's why we stay now
Who's great idea was it to not open the inbound side?
I always wondered why people in Houston automatically evacuated north to Dallas when they could just go west to Austin or SA too and you wouldn’t have that embarrassment moment where people would rather risk their life at home then be evacuate and make it to a destination in a decent time.
It was the same on ALL freeways and roads out of Houston. I tried to go out I-10 East at 2AM and gridlock. So, what you see was typical on all roads at all hours. NEVER again. When Ike came toward us I stayed home but poer was lost for 14 days. You can't win.
@@Melody615199999 to be fair I think the rita evacuation was so chaotic because people were so scared after Katrina so everyone rushed out all at once.
I went to College Station, left Houston around one-ish, arrived in CS at midnight. Only one dog with me as opposed to 4 during Harvey evacuation. .
It took us 34 hours to drive from Beaumont to Plano.
Did you ever run out of gas along the way?
Were you stick in traffic the entire way?
That must've been insane
WHAT ABOUT LAKE CHARLES, CAMERON AND OTHER PLACES IN LOUISIANA
Cameron was wiped off of the map and Lake Charles looked like a bomb exploded! I live in Lake Charles and it was a horrific storm. But I think all of the other people are talking about the traffic jam leaving the Houston area and the hurricane didn't even go there because it suddenly changed it's coarse. Traffic leaving Lake Charles was a nightmare too.
SerratedBlade it’s the media
Rita was actually stronger than Katrina, it was the first time that Jasper had to evacuate,it was crazy!!!😮
Katrina was 175 mph and Rita was 180 mph
took me 42 hours to go from houston to paris tx
My parents got married during Rita but good thing they where in Illinois when they got married .But there honeymoon they where in tropical storm Stan
Just wait until Battery Electric Vehicles are added to the stop-and-go chaos.
People will be looking for those battery chargers, bigly 😸
Even watching this on tv hi asked myself how stupid of the city not to open other side of freeway
I didn't evacuate. i was lucky, Huracane didn't hit and wasn't stuck on traffic
3 ;9/23/2013 ;3,834 ;24 ;1:38 ; R/Largest storm of the Gulf Of Mexico & 4th n Atlantic & largest Evacuation n usa. Most costly storm of all time for K. Deaths 1800+ & 120killed.
I went south unlike enrolment else
Hurricane Irma surpassed this.
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That was terribel!
visa checkout comm; If u take the date Rita made landfall & the UTC + The day & UTC of Katrina, it = the Rapture/D/Day. 9/24/05' at 0740 & 8/29/05' at 1110UTC.
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James Merkel I live in Palestine. I remember this event. We were just recovering from Katrina. Had a lot of refugees from that, and a lot that stayed. But this was something else. It felt like the entire population of Houston was evacuating through our little town. We had New York esqe traffic jams. It usually took 10-15 minutes to get from school to my house. It tookus between an hour to an hour and a half one day.
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I found a party n play buddy at a motel in east texas and spent the whole evacuation spun out of my mind slamming tina and getting slammed haha, vote Biden 2024