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traffic is at a standstill because those roads weren't designed to evacuate 10-12 million people all at once. not to mention houston's freeway system has been under construction for the better part of 6 decades but hopefully the storm will do minimal damage despite the size and strength of it.

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please keep us updated good luck to everyone

OH TOLEEDY!

Yeah, good luck
Hope everything turns out well

Goodluck to all of you & take care.


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Good luck to you and everyone else in Houston!

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Kitten, if you get to talk to them again please tell them Jorge and I are thinking of them and we wish them the best. Stay safe Heidi and Leslie Can't wait to see you both back.

I'll make sure to pass along everyone's well-wishings.

I was on the phone with heidi well into the early morning ... 3AM arrived and I was still talking to her in an attempt to keep her awake behind the wheel. Last reports had her in the car for five hours and having gone a great grand total of 32 miles, I believe.

Needless to say, everyone had full bladders and cramping legs. ...To the point where any bushes that might have appeared would have looked like a godsend. Apparently, however, Texas doesn't have bushes. I kept telling her that traffic was so slow, they could just get out and walk alongside the car to stretch their legs... The speedometer hardly moved above 5 mph for most of the time I talked to her. We had to laugh because Hurricane Rita was moving faster than they were!

To keep herself amused, Heidi was looking at out-of-state license plates. She found out the Louisiana has a new, quite pretty plate... looked like a heron or a similar bird (long legs, long beak) standing in the middle of the bayou. Sounded cool to me.

Uh... oh, the things people will take with them! Several people had one or more big screen TVs packed up. One guy seemed to have nothing BUT a big screen in his truck. Heidi laughed over that, said it seemed like he didn't even have a suitcase or anything with him. One guy had what looked like ALL of his posessions with him... Heidi said it looked like he wasn't coming back.

Another truck had a cooler in the back. With what Heidi thought looked like an airline coming out of it. You know you're a fish person when you assume that a cooler has fish in it.

However, I think the most amusing thing seen last night was the vehicle with the pregnant goat in it. All haltered and leashed and stuff.

Oh... people walking on the side of the road... One person walking TOWARDS Houston.

One vehicle pulled a U-turn over the center median and started going southbound instead of fighting to go northbound? Not sure where they thought they were going...

Here's for Heidi...

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Heidi IM'ed me briefly at around 10 AM today.

By then they were 14 hours on the road and made about 70 miles.

She was about to pull into a gas station.

Ingo

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That is moving slowly, I would probably be losing my temper/sanity at that rate. I just wanted to say that I hope things turn out well for all of you and that Cleo will be ok at home. It must have been hard for you to leave her (and everything else) behind, as evil as she is.

When you get to TN, I hope you all have some hot tea, some chocolate and a comfy bed to collapse in. I'm not a religious person but I'll say a few prayers for you guys, it can't hurt.

Thanks also to those keeping us updated.

i heard today that people are pushing their cars in traffic so that they don't waste gas.

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Heidi Update as of 3:44 PM East Coast:

wonderful news. we are in woodville made good time 4 a bit now slow again . . .still better than most

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