No one is evacuating 10 miles. 50-100 miles maybe if you have family north where you need to be. If you don't (like having to go to Dallas to get to family), you have to drive through it. Hotels are all booked along the way. My brother had to evacuate 350 miles to get away from Katrina. Why? No hotels.Teslag said:Ag_of_08 said:
It took my grandmother and mother driving from beaumont, to near Dallas, then back to college station and over 30hrs on the road during Rita.
40hrs at idle is great.... now do 30hrs with a several hundred mile drive.
I dont think you've ever been in a hurricane evac, much less a two week stint living on an accidental island with no power...
So we have now moved the goal post from the OP's 10 to 50 miles to several hundred miles.
BTW - he had 9 feet of water in his house.