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Duster said:

That was going to be my suggestion.marty9876 said:I'm sure OCAU would lend us some space...![]()
AtomicMoose said:Yeah, if the [H] goes down....meet at OCAU.![]()

We willbe thinking about you...stay safe.Mohonri said:We left Houston last night at about 7:45 pm. Most of the distance, traffc wasn't too bad, but we were stuck in a 25-mile traffic jam for 4.5 hours. We were lucky--we left from the NE side of town and took a non-official-evacuation route (Hwy 59) We have other friends that left from the same place at 3:30 this morning, and they have yet to arrive (it's normally a 3 hour drive to where we are now). We're just happy to be here, relatively safe. The eye is supposed to go right over my house. I'm just hoping the wind blows over the tall, ugly pine tree in our front yard--towards the street. I'm pretty sure the tree's toast--I just hope it falls away from our house.
Mohonri said:UPDATE: Our friends who left at 3:30am finally got here about 7:30pm. That's 16 hours for 180 miles. It took them 13 of those hours to go 75 of those miles--about 3 times as long for three times the distance we experienced last night. I can only hope the traffic situation gets better before tomorrow night. The traffic isn't really anybody's fault--not the government's, not the fleeing people's--it's just that the highway system is not designed to carry this type of load. Because it almost never does. I have been impressed with how civil and calm everybody has been.

That is good to hear. Travel safe.Mohonri said:We've been watching the news quite a bit (morbid curiosity, wanting to see if our houses survived), and it sounds like the city will have better procedures in place for opening up more lanes next time.
That said, we just found out that our house now has power, so we'll be heading back soon. Open all the windows to air out the house, turn on the electricity, turn on the gas, turn on the water, and we'll be good to go. Our neighbor who stayed said we got off with no damage, so we're grateful for that blessing. I'll be able to get my desktop up and folding (yes, it is a top priority, right after the A/C).