My car loves going 90 mph so much, it got me and 1000 lbs. of my belongings to Houston at 34 mpg. That's almost double what I get driving around the city.
We made to to Houston to shortly after 7 am. The trip was mostly uneventful, except for the pace cars maintaining traffic at 45 mph on I-10 all the way to Baton Rouge, apparently to allow the convoy of prison evacuees to get ahead. It's interesting that it's a really big deal that they aren't allowed to mix with the general population when I've seen them in clinic, and even to the extent that we can't be on the highway at the same time We also passed a string of charter buses going the opposite direction to evacuate people who don't have access to their own transportation. There were about 20 disabled vehicles along the side for the road. (How awful would that be? I'd have to unpack my entire trunk to get the spare tire out.) Also, the town of Adams Bayou, somewhere just inside Texas, smells like garbage. And then I saw the sun rise over Texas. (In my review mirror of course, since I was driving west.)
We got to Marlon's, and of course the first thing I did was check the status of the storm, which, since I left New Orleans had been upgraded to a category 2. After napping for a few hours, I went back to my computer to find that it was now a category 3. Sometime while I decided to do some school work, the internet went out, and I had to put the Weather Channel on mute so I could keep myself updated. Since then, it's been fluctuating between cat 4 and almost 5. For details on what the category differences are, check out this NHC page.
On the bright side, we met up with some med school friends at Goode Company BBQ, which was pretty tasty.
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