by Sustenon » Sat Sep 24, 2005 11:05 pm
I live and work in Houston, as an ER nurse, at a hospital that lies along the I-10 corridor. We had at least 12 heat related emergencies on thursday related to the gridlock, and 2 deaths out of those. It was chaotic, disorganized, and a general cluster in retrospect, seeing as our worst problem was power outages due to the high winds. I waited 1 hour and 45 minutes for gas at the one station I found in a 5 miles radius. It was sick. And today there have been traffic jams of people trying to get back in to a town with 600,000 power outages and no gasoline. Stay away! I would if I wasn't locked in the hospital for the last 3 days.Been a strange experience for sure. People are parking at gas stations waiting for them to open up or get gasoline. Today they were pulling guns on eachother to skip the gas lines.