Is southeast Texas ready for another mass evacuation during hurricane season?
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- The last mass evacuation was nearly 20 years ago when Hurricane Rita threatened the Texas coast. Almost 2 million people were packed in a massive traffic jam that turned deadly. What's changed since then?
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Refill your gas tank when it gets half empty during this time of year.
Also, always have plenty of extra water at home.
Don't let it get empty!
FJB!
No. Texas needs to be ready to take freeways both directions North. Storm surge is worse than wind. However days and days and days of no electricity! No insulin for diabetics or oxygen for COPD patients. Both way freeway traffic North
Do the smart thing and head west instead. Go far away enough to get out of the storm's path, because everyone else will be heading north towards Dallas.
Stock up on your meds!
@@jeffreymartin6369 they already have contraflow lanes on major interstates out towards San Antonio and Dallas
I remember Rita well, we could not get out of the City of Plum Grove for days before Rita because of all the evacuation traffic from the Crosby to Beaumont areas coming up Plum Grove Road (aka FM1010). For the past 7 years now though, that roadway has been washed-out from the Colony Ridge drainage system and there is no estimate on when that road will ever be repaired... State Representative Ernest Bailes has even been recorded as saying that "they" (?) don't want the Plum Grove Road washout to ever be repaired! Yet no news reporters aside from Wayne Dolcefino have been out here to visit the washout and talk about it.... why? Wouldn't you think that a main roadway that's a hurricane evacuation route that's been washed out for 7 years would be news worthy???
I “evacuated”Houston a few years back and don’t plan to return.
NOPE! People are still too stupid and irresponsible to do the right thing. Infrastructure is TRASH! Dont get me started on ERCOT/Centerpoint....
I miss living in Galveston. I want to move back so badly, I hate the freaking city. The people in Galveston are so much more friendly and cool. Lots of cool bars to get to know the locals.
I've been wanting to move to Galveston. At least for a year or two.
Galveston beach stinks. The water taste like urine and looks like diarrhea.
@@stevemoore-nx8cqWho said anything about the beach
Nobody is stopping you.
@@stevemoore-nx8cq everyone is entitled to their opinion, but unless you have actual experience living there then you should just stay quiet. Its obviously not the best beach by far but it has wonderful people year round that are selfless and help each other. If you lived there you would know about the rare days when the water was blue. Trash talk the water all you want but its a great place to live and meet new people. If you are so set on hating Galveston then stay in your city and hate Galveston there, we dont need you in any way
A common sense solution would be to turn all south bound lanes into north bound traffic only. Noone should be heading into a hurricane region when everyone else is evacuating!
They already do that.
Duh. That’s been going on for decades.
No thanks - I would rather die at my house than go through a Katrina like traffic jam.
Leave Early, my advice for any Barrier Island residents. It's not worth the risk...
Exactly!! Idk why folks don’t do this and then surprised when they’re stuck.
@@cinnamonrollonapancake Because they think nothing bad is going to happen. When their car is flooded, that's it, they are stuck...Lol..
Spent 11 hrs.stuck on I-10 trying to get to San Antonio
Spent the same amount of time on 59 trying to get to the Dallas area. By the early morning hours, we were barely in Splendora and then by noon time we were in Livingston! CRAZY!
Look at 59, 45, I-10 on any given weekday afternoon.
_Anyone who tries to evacuate using these roadways during the next natural disaster will be gambling with their lives._
Especially true back during Rita because the majority of the deaths came from heat exhaustion trying to evacuate. The hurricane itself didn't claim as many lives as the evacuation from the damn thing did!
I remember the Rita evacuation like it only yesterday. I remember only making it to Livingston trying to get to the Dallas area, then just said forget this madness and headed east towards Warren. The heat on the road was unbearable, no gas, no food, NOTHING! When we got to Warren, the hurricane came right through our area while Houston was untouched! I SHOULD HAVE STAYED HOME! When we got back home, I had a few days off from school because they were all still closed. Long after it was all over, I do remember having many nightmares about the experience including one weird one where everyone was trying to get out of town because aliens from outer space were invading! Never evacuated for a hurricane since!!
Harvey was hell, too. I pray Houston's given a pass from hurricanes this year after the recent tornado and hurricane Beryl. both we're still recovering from. 3 weeks with no electricity is dangerous and my Dad, 95, worries me. He's brave but there's only so much anyone can take. We do have a small generator but it's not large so we have a fan and refrigerators running. We've lost trees and our fence is still down. Will be doing a great deal of praying this next 6 weeks.
These people ain’t ready for something like this. It took us 2.5 hours to travel 10 miles just outside Galveston at 2:00 pm earlier this afternoon
It didn't go smooth during hurricane Rita , and if they tried to evacuate Harris county in the present, it would be the biggest disaster in American History.
Hell naw we aint ready
Hell no there's still debris all over this city still.
I blame the media for installing panic and fear into the general public.
That’s what the media should be doing so people get the hell out of there
Too many people here.
Are we ready. No.
I left for one storm. Didn't have to. The coastal areas get hit hardest. Every storm is different. Areas flood. Big trees are ignored until a storm hits. Think...way ahead.
I'm in Arkansas and I'm seeing a lot of new Texas plates. To me this is a crisis. Many people are selfish and drive that way. I don't have a vehicle so I know the psychological impact between being in a closed up vehicle and being on foot. It's a strange way of being. So with selfish people leaving Texas seeking life in Arkansas there may be more vehicular hit and run incidents. Thanks for the warning.
So you're saying Texans aren't allowed to move to Arkansas?
@@maggie2sticks717 kind of like Texans reacting to Californians moving to Texas😂
A meteorologist spoke on hurricanes in my community recently. One big takeaway: if you are stuck in traffic trying to leave then you waited too long to go.
Houston is definitely not ready. Many issues that plagued the area in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike were repeated with Hurricane Beryl. We all have work to do if we want to be prepared for the next one. Either way, we are in deep trouble if a major hurricane heads our way.
People ignored priority evacuees from coastal areas and hit the road all at once. This zone system will not work.
Block the evacuation zone that are not Priority with police and barricades people get the message
@jorgemarin7303 You can't block people outside of the mandatory evacuation zones from leaving those areas. Those who are not evacuating still need to get around town to work, fill up on supplies, and help others get ready.
Image yourself leaving 2 days early vs the nightmare you’ll endure. Distance is your friend , 200 miles inland with a 3 hour drive , forecast direction should give one a proper chess move .
It will be worse with all the electric cars running out of power.
evs use almost no power idling in traffic, try again fudster
Hurricane coverage is a joke and the city has no emergency command center discipline. This last 3-ring circus with Beryl was a disgrace.
No. Never was, never will.
Hopefully, they will reverse the opposite side of the highway, which had only a few Vehicles going towards the storm, further up the road, perhaps as it exits the city, doubling parking capacity. Every gas station along the Route needs backup generation and large subsidized storage tanks as part of the funding package, something to consider that is essential to keep unprepared motorists moving.
NO!
Don’t worry. Greg Abbott will save you
Trust him MUCH MORE than ANY liberal
Didn’t he vacation during the last storm Texas had?
Arrogant Abbott did indeed take a vacation while 102 Counties were completely destroyed. These counties will be at least two years recovering. 2:45
@@christinerisden5799 proof?
We should be. We've been building roads like mad men for 20 years.
Nope. Stay home.
imagine when txdot puts the downtown highways below grade, you will need a submarine
So the people who choose to live on galveston want everyone one to give them special priveleges ? I think not . My family is more important than you are .
As a native Texan I want all those in Galveston & direct coastal areas to leave first before anyone. Yet people in Houston will clog up the roads when they won't get a storm surge even in their dreams.
@@kbrown5218 if you choose to live in a known area prone to hurricanes thats on you . Everybody in southeast texas can suffer harm in this area from flooding or wind or even the power being out . More people died in houston than in galveston as far as i know from beryl ,ill be damned if i put my family in danger for total strangers survival doesnt work that way .
Galveston blows
@@lawabidingdad in more ways than one .
What’s that supposed to mean?
Thank God my parents had trusted their instinct and stayed at the house back in 2005 because it didn't affect us badly like IKE did in 2008.
No not at all
Can these storms and tornado come to San Antonio. We needs rains badly
Every month is a fucking storm
Galveston is so overrated. The beach water looks like diarrhea and take like urine. Go to south padre Island or Corpus Christi folks.
I was just there the other day and I noticed the water went from a muddy look to looking like diarrhea. I don’t see how anyone gets in that garbage to play.
Corpus is nasty.
I was told by people it’s a lot better than Galveston, never been to corpus but I’ve been to Galveston.
BOYCOTT GOD TILL EVIL STOPS
Boycott mainstream news
No,...!
No
I stayed ❤ and it was fine ...
Ted Cruz is ready to head back to Cancun
That’s during winter weather
Come on Channel 13! Who cares?
Hmm
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STUPIDEST idea ever....don't be sheep...smh....don't fall for media hype
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Exactly, when the fake stream news media tell you to panic, don’t panic. When they tell you to not panic, then panic.
@txpigs ur solution? u got nuthin