yeppers gregg, i stayed home and everyone left. one of the local hobbyshops met me at their store sunday morning, i was out of glue and building like a mad man. darn near built a whole reaction 54 kit in 2 days of kaos. i have decided one thing, if the russians ever fire their icbm's, i will bend over and kiss it all good bye, i will never get in a traffic jam like i saw on tv. that was crazy, they sat for 12 hours and went 5 miles. i will take a nuke before i do that. it looked like a bunch of sheep. a funny story, one of my employees, who by the way was suppose to help me see everyone at the hospital thursday morning, decided to stand me up and evacuate with his wife. so i had to hustle and see patints at three hospitals, the reason i had to hustle was my wife and 1 yr old daughter were flying out to stay with my father inlaw, ok, long story short, i finished seeing everyone and was back at the house by 9:30, i loaded up the family and drove to the airport, hearing all the freeways were parking lots, i used nothing but backroads, i would head north and when i saw a slow down i would head east. zig zag and in 50 minutes i was kissing my better half an child good bye. in less than 30 mins i was back at home preparing for the storm. as i passed under i45 making my way to the airport, i passed my employee who had left 7 hours earlier. after 15 hours and never making it past kingwood (norhteast side of houston) he turned around and went back home. the return trip took him 45 mins. SWEET REVENGE for hanging me out. in the same amount of time he sat and went no where, i flew my wife out , saw 14 patients, mowed the yard, secured the house etc, showered and had one fine bowl of hagendas DULCE DE LECE ice cream. it pays to not panic, just get er done. barry