evacuation hell

i guess lets just hope that an immediate disaster never hits one of our urban cities. they are now evacuating about 2 million ppl up through texas from the coastal cities.

my parents have been on the road for about 21 hours straight now. they said they spent about 10 of those hours only going 30 miles along the houston border.

jeremy's parents had much better luck taking a direct route straight north and on through to northern louisiana. they hit monroe, la about 11am.

my parents are afraid they are going to run out of gas... they are just about 60 miles outside of austin with less than half a tank of gas left. and our gas stations between san antonio, beaumont, houston, corpus christi are all tapped out. if they do run out of gas, we'll have to try and somehow find them along the interstate. normally, they would be good for another 80 miles of travel but due to the horrendous traffic, their gas is being wasted by the minute..

cell phone communication is shotty at best. it takes me like 30 attempts to reach them.. even close to 20 minutes to get through.

i know it's a small price to pay to guarantee your safety, but i feel for my parents and everyone else who had to make the 24-36 hour long journey.

i think i will try to call them again now.