Cars clogged Texas highways with more than a million people fleeing Hurricane Rita as the storm roared through the Gulf of Mexico on a potentially catastrophic course.

Heavy traffic jammed highways from Corpus Christi in southern Texas into Louisiana as coastal residents, heeding the lessons of Hurricane Katrina, headed inland to escape what has become one of the most intense storms on record.

The National Hurricane Centre said the path of Rita, with top winds dropping slightly to 265 kph and is now a Category 4 storm, had shifted toward the north. It appeared to be headed toward Galveston and Houston, the nation's fourth largest city and centre of the US oil industry.

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I just spoke to my daughter in the Toronto area. She told me that lineups for the gas pumps are horrendous as everyone tries to fill their tanks before the expected jump in price which is expected to hit $2.50 a litre by tonight. With prices holding steady at around $2 a litre lately, this will be a big jump.

The trucks are still rolling. You wouldn't believe how many mushrooms the big stores go through. We are bringing in 2 full reefer loads a day to supply Albertsons, Safeway, Fred Meyers, Organically Grown, Pacific Coast, Charlies and a few others in Portland alone.

This is just mushrooms. Can you imagine what would happen if ALL the food trucks stopped coming?

Take care and PREPARE, my friends.

Di