NVDL: Imagine this scenario. You've left home, as ordered, because a huge storm is going to make a direct hit on your neighborhood. So you leave. You speed quite alot of money 'surviving' in hotel rooms and on the charity of others, and eventually you decide 'the show is over' and you're going home.
Then, on the way home you find yourself stuck in traffic jams, firstly you're not even sure if your house is even there, and secondly, someone is saying: "Why are you folks coming back? You're straining the meagre fuel supplies we have around here by driving all the way back."
Yahoo: "It's not a good scenario," said Raquelle Lewis, a Texas Department of Transportation spokeswoman.
Lewis would not estimate the number of cars caught in the backlog, which extended miles past the first checkpoint that is 19 miles north of Galveston. Lewis pleaded with displaced Galveston residents to not waste scarcely available fuel by trying to head home.
In Houston, most people in the nation's fourth-largest city remained without power for a fifth day, making it tough to track the latest information on where to pick up supplies. For most, the electricity wasn't expected back on for at least another week.
Residents again waited in line for hours Wednesday at the roughly two dozen supply distribution centers set up in Houston to hand out food, water and ice. Mayor Bill White complained FEMA wasn't bringing in the supplies fast enough, and Harris County Judge Ed Emmett had personally taken over coordination of efforts to hand out relief supplies.
FEMA officials in Houston said they were refining glitches in the relief effort and delivering millions of meals and water every 24 hours. Spokesman Marty Bahamonde said FEMA will begin paying for 30 days of hotel expenses for homeowners whose houses are uninhabitable. FEMA plans to reimburse the hotels directly.
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clipped from news.yahoo.com
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