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Originally Posted by vash

that looks like absolute hell.

it happened here, but under ideal weather conditions. my friends construction project resulted in an excavator backing into one of those high voltage transmission towers, which collapsed the structure draping the high KV wires across HWY 101. i think i remember 15 hours lockdown, stuck in traffic.

the neighborhood restuarants rallied and sent coffee, food, anything to the stuck motorist. it was super humanity in action. people would walk to the bathrooms nearby. nobody freaked, nobody died.

but in frozen weather..suckage!!

After hurricane Katrina hit NO, Rita came through and "they" were saying that it was going to be a direct hit on Houston causing massive damage. There was a huge evacuation of everything from Houston to Galveston. We went to my parents (kind of a weird choice since they lived in the FL panhandle). What normally took us 8-9 hours with the family took 16-17 hours, and the first 8hrs of that was the first 30-35 miles to get out of Houston and on to I-10 East. It's my understanding that there were people that evacuated with dogs in the back of pick up trucks where the dogs died (presumably from dehydration and from the heat). I know that the evacuation from Houston to Dallas took something like 20-24 hours for what is normally a 4-5 hour drive.

And we used a ton of gas during that 8 hours to go 30-35 miles.