Month: September 2005

We told you the other day about HISD providing the city with last minute shelters and then HISD driving over 400 of those evacuees back to where they came from. Yesterday Matt Stiles wrote a

We’re going to follow Laurence Simon’s lead and use this post as a placeholder for the Rita announcement that was stuck at the top during the excitement. ALERT: MAYOR WHITE AND JUDGE ECKELS ASK THAT

via the Chronicle: Some of those who ventured out for some shopping Sunday acknowledged that they really didn’t need much. But the trip to the store was a good excuse to get out of the

This Chronicle story addresses some of the issues we have been discussing on Houston blogs — the massive traffic jam last Wednesday and Thursday: Hurricane planners have a little ditty that goes, “run from the

SAFEclear + FEMA = free tows for Hurricane Rita evacuees who abandoned their cars. On Houston freeways only: Evacuees forced to leave cars along freeways because they broke down or ran out of gas may