Hurricane evacuation

Arthur, Bertha, Cristobal,Dolly, Edouard, Fay, Gustav, Hanna nothing was hitting us. You must be wondering about what those names might be, those are all Hurricanes in 2008. The next one in the list is Ike. As usual it was projected to come towards Houston, TX. And none of us really cared for it as already a few Hurricanes drifted from the projecte path without even touching our state. 

Days passed and still the projected path is towards Houston, TX. Only 4-5 days were remaining for the hurricane to make a landfall.  I've inquired a few people about the Hurricane which is approaching the Houston at the place i work (I meet a lot of people at my work place, so i know whats happening in their community) they said that it is all ridiculous, they never had hurricane in the past 25 years and they would never have another one in the near future. Some people decided to stay at their home places instead of evacuating. 

After one day, I've seen a lot of people filling up their gas tanks as the government has decided to do a mandatory evacuation at the areas near to the coast. Our area is also under the evacuation list, so, we had to fill up our gas tanks on the same day night. On the next day fear gripped all the people, all the gas stations were empty by the noon. It was hard to find a gas station with gas. But for us holiday mood has already started :). But the big question is how do we utilize all of our holidays. I say austin is a good place, some say Dallas and very few say San Antonio. 

After having a serious discussion on it we decided on going to Dallas. As it is cost effective, (coz my friends live there, we can live without putting much money in the motels :D). It was 3.00 P.M, we started to load our vehicles with all the luggage and grocery. I was the person to lock the door of our apartment for the last time i guess. We pulled our vehicles from the parking lot and set one after the another.