My boss had the bright idea of having us visit the Houston market this week. We all arrived Wednesday afternoon with plans to leave Friday. After watching all the panic buying in the stores in The Woodlands, we decided to call our customer service people to make sure the stores would get replenished and decided to call it a week.

Lots of traffic NBD on I-45 at 11 am, stop-and-go until Willis and then again at Huntsville. I finally got home (near DFW) after taking a shortcut on US Hwy 287 around 5:30.

At the Houston Mayor's press conference this morning, he was asking employers to give all non-essential employees Friday off to keep the roads clear. He then listed what he thought were non-essential: medical, public safety, transport workers, grocery workers and gas station workers.