Hurricane Rita hasn't landed, but second thoughts and finger-pointing at local officials and local media have already started due to the evacuation gridlock. For example, Eric Berger ("SciGuy") at the Houston Chronicle is pretty level-headed, despite his own family getting caught up in it, but some of his commenters are piling on the "hype" generated by non-stop media coverage.
State officials seem to have been caught unprepared by the rapid need for fuel and contraflow lanes during a massive regional exodus, but all in all local officials and our hometown media seem to have handled things pretty well, it seems to me.
It would be a bitter irony if the storm changed course and hit us directly after all.
Posted by Alan at September 23, 2005 12:16 PM