Well There's Floodin' Down in Texas: National Hurricane Center Director Worried about Texas Hurricane Evacuation Plan
Bill Read, Director of the National Hurricane Center, has concerns about the Texas hurricane evacuation plan. A key problem is that the plan assumes that there will be sufficient reaction time for an evacuation effort before the storm hits like there was with Hurricane Rita. About Rita, Read says that "That's as much lead time as you're ever going to get with a storm" and "by making their plan around Rita, they're really fighting the last war."
Massive Traffic Jam on I-45 as Houston Residents Flee Hurricane Rita
Source: AmyEmilia, This photo is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 2.0 License.
Read more about it at "Hurricane Center Director: Texas Has Work to Do" and see the evacuation map for Brazoria, Galveston, and Harris Counties (Houston is in Harris County).
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