Traffic, the real killer..

I am safely back at the "base," i.e. Kavah Kanes coffee next to the Rice. Traffic steals center stage today as all the major evacuation highways morphed into parking lots. Just heard from my dad, he has been driving from the North side of Houston and has only made it to Navasota after nearly twelve hours of driving! Unfortunately, our family beagle Snoopy succumed to the stress of the experience and passed away this afternoon. This experience has ignited my fuse. The traffic jams resulted from a lack of planning on the state level. The Contre-Flow plans to make the major thouroughfares one-way should have been implimented upon the issuance of the first evacuation order. Mayor White has done a great job, thus far, however the Texas Department of Transportation needs to evaluate their disaster plans to ensure a more timely response. TxDOT waited too long to implement the Contre-Flow, for whatever bureaucratic reason. The government should behave more like a military organization -- act decisively and swiftly. An faulty plan executed quickly oftentimes is much better than a perfect plan not executed at all.
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