So far, no traffic problems on return to Houston

Houston Chronicle:

Despite urging by the governor and Houston's mayor to stay put for a while and not rush home, thousands of evacuees from this region hit the road Saturday.

As eager as they were to sleep under their own roofs again, they seemed equally eager to avoid repeating last week's hellish exodus, in which the rush by an estimated 2.5 million people to escape Hurricane Rita's path created massive highway logjams.

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Gov. Rick Perry and Houston Mayor Bill White had strongly advised evacuees to stay where they were for another day or two so that power could be restored and debris could be cleared before the roads filled with traffic. Most school systems, including the Houston district, even decided to stay closed until midweek so everyone wouldn't feel the need to rush back.

But even though waves of residents from the coastal region disregarded the advice, the gridlock that officials had feared didn't come about — at least not yet. Many more can be expected to head home today.

Worry about gridlock was one factor that drove people to depart early or stay off the roads, allowing a mostly free flow of traffic on Houston-area highways that resembled parking lots during the exodus.

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