Anyone in South Texas remember evacuating for Hurricane Allen?

[silverlib]

My family lived in Ingleside, just north or Corpus. The hurricane had hit Florida and it was devastating, so there was much the same fear that the evacuees are experiencing in the aftermath of Katrina. The cars drove back to back at 15 mph, max. Cars overheated and ran out of gas on the side of the roads. Hotel rooms and shelters along the way filled up quickly. My family (two adults and two children) spent the night in a station wagon in Quero City Park. We simply feared to try and go further. It turned out that Allen didn't do near the damage in TX that it did in FL.

This is NOT news. Highway evacuation plans have had problems before - and what did emergency management learn?

[displacedtexan]

1. Was that the one that got folks twice?

I lived in San Marcos (husband was UT doctoral student). We had just returned from Europe, and we were at the grocery store when the siren went off.

The house two doors down from us was blown away, but ours was untouched. I remember that folks evacuated the coast and set up camp in San Marcos, only to be hit by the storm.

Was that Allen?

[fudge stripe cookays]

2. I wasn't IN it,

but my aunt and uncle and their three kids came up to Austin.

Summer of 1980. Was it August?

They were in and around Corpus and Premont, and they stayed with us for what seemed like a week or so. I was 14, so I just remember all of us camped out on my brother's huge pit group sofa watching everything on the news.

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[2bfree]

3. I was in Portland at the time.........

We left for the Kennedy area and it took us about 3 hours to get to Sinton and another 4 to get to Pettus. Are you still in this area?

[fudge stripe cookays]

4. Actually...

those wacky southern area folk spell their Kenedy with just one "n". :P Honest.

Sorry. Editor. Can't help it.
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[Stil]

5. Anyone else see White

Not pointing fingers, but chastising the governors office for not following up on the pre-arranged gas trucks along the evac. routes.

[WolverineDG]

6. we rode it out in the valley

the storm stalled off the coast for 12 hours, finally slamming into port mansfield. during the actual storm, we got mostly wind, no rain. after the storm passed, the sun came out & we thought all was fine. that night, though, the rain started & didn't stop. my dad's house in north mcallen almost flooded. all routes out of the valley were closed due to flooding. about 2 weeks later, we went to san antonio for a wedding & were one of the first out of the valley since dps opened the road that morning. our car almost got flooded out in 2 places, the water coming up to the bottom of the car doors. 2 weeks after that, we had to go back to SA for another wedding. we still had to ford water in the same places, although it wasn't as high.

yes, it was in august. it was just before school was supposed to start & the district had to work overtime to repair the roof at the high school.

dg

[fudge stripe cookays]

7. I thought so...

I was just starting high school that year, and couldn't remember having gone back before that.

Glad you guys were OK! My grandma and aunt were in Weslaco, but they were OK. I can't remember where they went, but they were none worse for the wear.

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[Castilleja]

8. If it is the one i am thinking of, we did evac. to Laredo

only to have it come to us and do damage to the shelter we were in. Don't remember the actual drive to be anything unusual, though. We came home to nothing but a cracked window in my room from a loose board.