From the Chronicle because I’m not a cheap bastard and pay for a subscription to the local paper.
An armed woman in a lawn chair caused a standoff that shut down all lanes of Interstate 45 Thursday afternoon, Precinct 4 Constable's officials said.
A crisis intervention team was trying to talk to the woman to end the standoff on I-45 at Cypresswood a little after 3 p.m, said Thomas Gilliland, a spokesperson for the Harris County Sheriff's Office. The standoff began after a crash involving two vehicles, and a woman in one of the vehicles got out of one of the cars with a weapon and sat down.
Both the northbound and southbound lanes of the freeway were shut down.
Precinct 4 Constable Mark Herman encouraged people to avoid the area, as the woman, who officials said was suicidal, was refusing to comply with verbal commands and drop the weapon, he said in a Facebook post.
The two-vehicle crash shut down the left and right shoulders, the left lane, right lane, three center lanes, two frontage road lanes, the entrance ramp, the opposing left and right shoulder and five opposing main lanes, Houston Transtar reported as of 1:40 p.m.