Unless special needs dictate otherwise most inland residents should not evacuate until explicitly ordered to do so by local officials. That means that, for now anyway, most Harris County residents (folks who live in Houston) should stay put:
“Most people in Harris County shouldn’t evacuate in any case,” he said. “Unless you are in danger of water coming into your house and I mean storm surge, not rainfall, you need to stay put.”
At 4 p.m. CDT, Ike was a Category 2 storm with winds near 100 mph. It was about 720 miles east of Brownsville and was moving northwest at 8 mph after ravaging homes in Cuba and killing at least 80 people in the Caribbean.
Although there’s nothing to keep Harris County residents from jumping the queue, and leaving now, Emmett asked that they stay off the roads to let Galveston County residents have the first chance to move to higher ground.
“We have to make sure that the folks at Galveston Island clear first,” Emmet said. “They could easily be in harm’s way.”
The City of Houston has zoned the areas that are prone to storm surge. Evacuations, if needed, will be ordered zone by zone if the storm approaches. You can find the zone map, contraflow maps, and other evacuation instructions on their eGovernment site.
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