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What are the evacuations like?

After Katrina, "they" were predicting that Rita was going to be a direct hit on Houston, so we evacuated, along with every other person in the Houston metro area. We went to my parents' place in the panhandle of FL. It normally took us 8-9 hours to drive to my parents' place when on vacation with stops for gas, food, etc.... It took us 16-17 hours to get to my parents place, and the first 8 hours of that was to get from our house to the east edge of Houston on I10.

I know that there were folks that spent ~24 hours getting to the Dallas area which is a 4-5 hour drive under normal circumstances.