My Hurricane Rita evacuation
I can’t remember the name of this town, but it’s about the halfway point between Houston and Austin on Highway 71. Two gas stations in the entire town, and they were both empty.
And the gas station that we found just outside of Bastrop. It was the first since we left that actually had gas. We had to sit in line for about an hour, but we finally filled up. We weren’t quite running on fumes, but couldn’t really be sure we’d make it to Austin.
