Barb and I and my parents and sister are all Rita Refugees in Kerrville, TX at Barb's parents house. For those of you who don't know, Kerrville is located 60 miles NNW of San Antonio.
After spending most of Wednesday helping to secure my plant I left Texas City around 2:30pm. This picture shows all of the Safety and Envr. files, moved out of our trailer office, into drums and into ISP's main bldg.
It took 5 hours for me to get from Texas City to our house in SW Houston taking back roads. I-45 was completely jammed packed with folks leaving Galveston for higher ground. I burned almost half a tank of gas driving 50 miles - gas which was quickly becoming a precious commodity.
Wednesday night late Rita was upgraded to a Category 5 Hurricane and was forecast to hit Galveston. Barb and I decided to leave. We set out in both cars at 9am on Thursday morning, got onto Hwy-90A and made it almost to the Beltway before traffic just stopped. We hung a u-turn over the median, drove to Hwy-521 and headed south, almost all the way to Angleton, and then zig-zagged NW and SW staying off 90 until Halletsville. We saw are share of dirt roads and gas lines. The trip, which normally takes 4 hours, took 9 hours. But, we fared much better than those on I-10 and Hwy-90 closer to Houston.
Barley was miserable for the first 2 hours and then only agitated for the next 3. The last 4 hours she slept on my lap with her head tucked between the seat and the door.
My parents and Joanne left Houston about 1:30pm on Wednesday headed to San Angelo, however their hotel reservations were cancelled so they came to Kerrville. Their trip took about 11 hours.
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