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[–] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

I'm pretty sure that every time we evacuated to a relative's house, we over-packed. But most of that "overpacking" wasn't just all the clothes, it was often food in the fridge going into ice chests, lots of water, extra fuel.

It would be common to get stuck in traffic trying to leave, and it even happened a couple of times that the highway was down to a complete stop.

I guess the unfortunate thing there is that they often "counter flow" the highway as well, meaning that they put all lanes leaving, but people rarely ever knew, so I sometimes saw someone going the "wrong way" on the highway while we were outside of our cars wondering what was happening.

Getting stuck like that was rare, but to avoid it you have to leave a day or two before everyone else.