I was sitting at home, watching all the people stuck in traffic trying to evacuate houston. Some people travelled 33 miles in 10-12 hours. I decided to head to my wife's hospital because she's a nurse and they were allowing family to stay there. Rita passed Houston by, but we still managed to have some Rita related casualties.

Around 2.5 million people were supposed to have been evacuated from Houston and the coastal counties. When you mix up that many people trying to leave, and residents that decided to stay, topping off their tanks, you end up with a fairly dry metropolitan area. The local gov't is trying to tell people to stagger their return to Houston and surrounding areas because there may not be any gas for all the people trying to return, and we'll probably see the same bottlenecks we saw during the evacuations.

I think I'll go out for a ride tomorrow to see how many cars will be out there. I'm betting there'll be a bottleneck on the way back, though.