Articles by Anne Linehan

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

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

I braved the (not so fierce) wind and rain earlier, and here is documented proof that we are feeling very blessed this morning:

Up here in Spring, almost to The Woodlands, we have had wind and rain (duh!), but our power is still on. That means we are having good coffee this morning — mmmmmm! Since a good

via KTRK-13: Days after the evacuation that saw tortuous delays on Texas highways, Houston’s mayor says the handling of gasoline supplies is “totally unacceptable.” Speaking to reporters, Mayor Bill White says that’s a part of

Councilman Michael Berry was just on with KTRK-13’s Miya Shay saying that many vehicles that had been abandoned on Houston freeways and streets, because they had run out of gas, were given five gallons of

On KTRK-13, Tom Abrahams just said that 2.7 million residents moved inland. That’s HALF the population of Galveston/Houston/Harris County. Wow! That explains the gridlock. UPDATE: KPRC-2 story

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