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To: combjelly who wrote (252554)	9/24/2005 1:09:39 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

"Yes, that one I don't understand....its not like contraflowing is new." Houston has experience with contraflowing. During the late 1970s and early 1980s, they would have contraflow lanes for inbound traffic in the morning and outbound in the evening. In addition there are many streets inside the Loop that are one way in one direction or another depending on the time of day. But to contraflow the whole Interstate just seems to have passed them by. What's bad is that people who have had a bad experience with this evacuation are less likely to evacuate the next time. New Orleans did that. They even modified their Interstates to make contraflowing easier. Yes, their evacuation seems to have gone easier but then the numbers moving out were much smaller. We don't really have to do that, most Interstates have two lane(or more) access roads that parallel the Interstates. So some creative coning and they are done. But, who was governor of Texas when FEMA was pushing the idea of contraflowing for evacuations? I leave the answer to that question as an exercise for the student... I don't understand what you mean. In the meantime, just got back and turned on CNN. Apparently, there is a fire in downtown Galveston and the worst of the storm is starting to make landfall. It looks like Lake Charles is going to catch the worst of the storm. CNN just said a building has collapsed in Galveston.