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Evacuation for Hurricane Rita, Houston, Texas. 2005 AP photo
Hurricane Evacuation: Houston
2005 was a disastrous year on the Gulf Coast. After Katrina ravaged Louisiana and Mississippi, people elsewhere in the region were waiting for lightning to strike again. That was very much the atmosphere in Houston when Rita looked like it was on a direct course for this low-lying metropolis. People panicked and the population fled the city in a mass exodus of 2.5-3 million, making it the largest in US history. The traffic jam, with cars stalled on the highway for tens of hours, actually killed more people 107 (according to the Houston Chronicle), this despite the fact that Rita veered away from Houston and made landfall in Louisiana. Hurricane Ike, whose eye passed directly over Houston in 2008, resulted in only 43 deaths in all of Texas.
I was not living in Houston for Rita, but have to say that after experiencing Ike first hand I gained a much grater appreciation how fickle hurricanes can be. They strengthen, weaken and change course pretty rapidly, and it is a incredibly intensive undertaking to evacuate major metropolitan areas. I was impressed with Houston's reaction to Ike, and thought the evacuation was carried out in a orderly fashion (relative to Rita, at least).
If you are motivated to prepare for the next storm, the City of Houston has a website waiting for you. It is a bit clumsy, but you can find Hurricane Preparedness Guides in several languages. I assume the links become more prominent when in August and September...
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