Here's the best story I heard on evacuations so far....
"Let me begin with Noah's Ark leaving NASA Rd. 1. Noah's Ark is what we called our convoy of 4 vehicles. 8 people and 9 pets (3 ferrets, 3 dogs, 2 cats, and 1 chinchilla) set out for a lovely ride into the countryside. But wait….everyone else had the same idea. It took our little convoy from 5pm Wednesday to 3pm Friday to get to Dallas.
Their was yelling and screaming all along the way. We stopped for the night at a gas station in Conroe. Luckily we found a pump free and we parked in it till the gas station opened the next morning. We saw a McDonald's 1/2 a mile away and decided to walk (as to not lose our place in line) to get some food. We arrived only to see that the drive thru line was the only way to get food as it was about 1am. They would not let walk-ups order so we walked back and got the last car in line at the pump to go retrieve food. As you would expect the line was long. We finally got our order after waiting 1 1/2 hours, and oh yeah it was all wrong of course. We asked for our correct order and they told us we would have to go back in line to order again.
We walked back to our Ark and split the food as best we could. Finally we got some sleep at about 3am. At 5am the police had to escort a tanker of gas to fill up the gas station. They yelled for everyone to get up and clear the parking lot to get the tanker in. Yep you guessed it we lost the perfect spot in line. By the time the stationed opened there had to have been at least 500 people waiting to get gas. Most of the people were walk-ups holding anything that would hold gas. As soon as the station opened the walk-ups swarmed the pumps and all went into chaos. The Police broke up fights and arrests were made. Finally some order was found and we received gas and were on our way again.
After 46 hours of driving and (language deleted) on every tree, bush and curb we could find we finally made it to our destination. The smell of all the animals, trash, and ourselves in our vehicles nearly knocked us unconscious for the next 2 days. Then it was the trip home to worry about. Happily the trip home only came out to be 9 hours. I will never complain about traffic again.
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