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To: tejek who wrote (252474)	9/22/2005 9:02:31 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) of 1571786

"Why are people not leaving? A death wish?" Some people just refuse to evacuate. Others want to protect their property from looters. Others have no means, although they did bring in buses to help evacuate. 85% is pretty good. It wouldn't have been that high if it hadn't of been for Katrina. So that leaves maybe 9000 people. Because of the Seawall, the main risk is flooding. Many of the older houses have second floors, they should be safe. There is also the teaching hospital, UTMB, where people could stay in safety. And there are buildings off the Strand which are tall enough. Of course, the ones that stay on the West End are suicidal fools... Why only contraflow I45? Because it is the only interstate that leads to decent sized population centers that can take a lot of people. There is only so much that a town like China or Newton or any number of tiny towns can take. East Texas is full of little farming communities with a few hundred or few thousand people. And they are spread out, there are long stretches of just trees and nothing else. But going out I45 takes you to Conroe and Huntsville in fairly short order. At either of those, some can swing over and pick up Hwy 6 that takes them to Bryan-College Station and Austin. I10 would take them to San Antonio, but then there isn't much else until they get to El Paso and that is 15 hours away. Heading south is nothing but state highways, and two lane roads aren't going to take much traffic, contraflow or not. And again, there isn't anything until they get to Corpus.

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