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To: Ish who wrote (171164)	9/22/2005 7:24:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Did you see that people have given up and have headed back into town to batten down the hatches and ride it out, for fear of being stuck in one of the world's greatest freeway jams? news.yahoo.com The storm is moving at 9 mph. The traffic is moving at less than that. Guess what that arithmetic means with the centre of the storm 400 miles away and the leading edge a lot closer than that? Not many days to move out of the way. Traffic flow won't improve once the wind and rain start. Note that they figured out that contrary to your idea, they don't need the southbound lanes open: <To speed the evacuation, Gov. Rick Perry halted all southbound traffic into Houston along I-45 and took the unprecedented step of opening all eight lanes to northbound traffic out of the city for 125 miles. I-45 is the primary evacuation route north from Houston and Galveston. Perry urged evacuees to stay calm and be patient. "You've done the right thing by leaving two days before Hurricane Rita makes landfall," he said. "You will get out of the coastal region on time. It's just going to take some time." > Mqurice