KTRK-13 is showing (via their Traffic Jam Cam) a convoy of 18-wheelers cruising along the 610 South Loop at Fannin.
The anchors say it’s a military convoy.
“It’s good to see,” says Ilona Carson.
Neither she nor Tom Koch seems to know what they might be transporting or where it’s going, but the news is slow in Houston at the moment. Radar shows a pretty strong band bearing down on central Houston and beyond, though.
UPDATE (9:01 PM): KTRK’s Gene Apodaca reports that the convoy is pulling into Reliant Park, where a command post will be set up. He’s talking search and rescue equipment, firefighting equipment, and all sorts of other equipment.
Ilona Carson asks the question I’m thinking: Can they move this equipment easily to the east, where it looks like they’ll be needed more? Apodaca says this is just prepositioning of equipment as close to the storm as possible, so they can respond rapidly.
