Posted on 08/27/2017 1:53:35 PM PDT by TigerClaws
You are dealing with low information dumbasses... if he would have recommended that people along high-flood prone areas move out to somewhere else, a good portion might have. Then the overall cost would have been much lower, life and monetary.
And this morning, a truck driver died in flood waters.
Do I think that person was dumb to drive into flood waters? You bet! But, why wasn’t the road blocked off? The flood waters didn’t reach 16’ in a second, they rose. And it is a predictable flood zone.
The fact that the RATS are trying to make zero political hay out of this tells me it’s going to sink them.
The experience of Hurricane Rita shows that you can’t have “limited” or “staged” anymore. With the internet and cell phones, an evacuation order in one area spreads across the entire region like a wild fire.
Exactly.
The city of Houston is 667 square miles.
At that flooded intersection a truck driver died. Drove into water and they couldn’t rescue him/her in time.
Exactly.
You’re dealing with folks that you could have had a bunch of buses there and places for them to stay in other cities. Organized that.
Instead of the mayor being blamed what will national press do?
Yep. Blame Trump!
RATS will be blaming Trump soon.
Salon Friday - before the hurricane hit - ran a story saying Trump ‘failed the test’ already.
How do you make political hay over something so common sense to not evacuate the 4th largest city in the US? Anyone that has lived there knows it’s an impossibility and he was right to have them shelter in place
Some Houston areas are more flood-prone than others.
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By Wednesday they knew the likely path and likely 50 inches of rain.
You have elderly, poor, people out of the loop and (like in New Orleans during Katrina) buses sitting there and an incompetent (Democrat) Mayor not ordering people to evacuate.
Trump will be blamed. That’s the MSM topic of the week. Book it.
With the rainfall they had no one went untouched. I lived there during Allison and I’m telling you, you don’t under any circumstances evacuate a city the size of Houston. Doing so equates to a much larger issue and more deaths
What happened to the Lesbo Mayor?
Can someone tell me how this is a democrat town?
The company that manufactures that traffic signal should use that photo in an ad. It’s almost completely under water, and the red lights are still working?
I tend to agree with you. Common sense tells you to protect yourself and those who can’t help themselves.
Some folks have raised some good points about a massive quick evacuation being something that couldn’t be done.
As you state though, there were days of advance warning here.
You can also go West or East and then North too.
Seems like anyone who left early would be able to find safe haven. Reducing the numbers of people in the area would lessen the need for emergency responders and emergency supplies, water, food...
I was on the roads in Oregon after the eclipse. The mayor has a valid point.
There are vulnerable groups:
1. Hospitals
2. Nursing homes
3. Elderly
4. Those in most likely flash flood areas
Get them out or you’ll see a revisit of Katrina death levels.
Every major city mayor should know that at this point.
What was done in Houston?
But book it that Trump will be blamed.
Streaming RT on youtube, following an AP reporter. They were trying to do an interview with an evacuee (evacuation underway).
Essentially her description: What haven’t I been through today? I have been traumatized.
These are poor minorities that were told by their mayor to not evacuate.
It will be powerful.
The moment he would have made that call no matter the lead time the whole city would have been on gridlock. We are talking about 6-8 million. Why we are making political hay out of the obvious is beyond me. Folks just need to get over the fact that yes a Democrat mayor made the right call. He knows his city and having lived there I’m saying yes he made the right call
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