It's been more than 9 hours since I last heard from my brother Wally, and even longer since I heard from my sister Becky. I don't want to use up precious cell-phone battery power for either of them by text-messaging or calling them yet. I'm betting that they're not yet anywhere near their intended final destinations. And this is why: Texas is the second-largest state (after Alaska) in land mass. Without traffic problems, it takes seemingly forever to get anywhere in the state anyway. But right now, more than 1 million people are trying to get out of the Houston area, so all of the highways look like this:
Photo by Rick Bowmer, Associated Press; from MSNBC.com
I hope I get a call or text message from both of them soon.
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