Hurricane Rita caused the massive evacuation of Houston; I am sure you have seen the visuals. Several people I know have family there, and all of them share stories along the lines of "What should have take 30mins driving took them 7.5 hours".
In Austin, that is several hundred miles away from the coast, people were freaking out. There was no bottled water in the city by Wednesday (the hurricane was predicted to strike on Saturday). Most gas stations were out of gas by Thursday.
I was forced to get some gas that day (I was running low), and had to wait behind this old lady's car that was blocking two pumps while she pumped gas. It took her quite some time to be done with her car, and then go inside the station and pay. Then, she opens the trunk, and takes out some portable gas container. And starts pumping gas in it. Then she goes inside again. From her trunk, she pulls out another, smaller, gas container, and starts putting gas in it. And then another, smaller one. And then another, even smaller one.
It was like she had a Matriochka of gasoline containers. I was expecting the last container to be the size of a shot glass.
It seems like Austin will not be under the direct effects of Rita. ACL, here I come.
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