The first order of business was to get gasoline to the Houston market and highway corridors of I-45 and I-10, which served as primary evacuation routes and trails of tears for thousands of motorists stranded alongside the road when their cars ran out of gas.

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The downpour forced the evacuation of about 300 people and caused power outages, small stream flooding and road closings.

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Tracing a diagram of his evacuation path on the dust of the floor, he described driving down a narrow road between the rice paddies.

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