Posted on 08/27/2017 1:53:35 PM PDT by TigerClaws
By the way, even if you only evacuated people closest to the coast in the lowest elevation areas, it would make a big difference.
If people live in a fortified home, I’m all for them staying put if they think they can weather the storm. I’d want them to be darned sure of it though.
Now you have hundreds of people in their attic, cutting holes in the roof, hoping for boat or air rescue.
This is another Katrina. We learned NOTHING apparently.
I have (yet another) dumb question: If the entire city floods — where are they taking the people who are being rescued by boats?
“From this point on, everything will be blamed on the President. It’s the same set up as Katrina. The left has politically weaponized Natural Disasters.”
Strangely, no really big natural disasters happened during Obama’s eight years. This is because he made his own disasters - the optics are easier to manage on those.
I hope you are alright. What we’re seeing on the television looks devastating.
I thought it was a lesbian police chief?
Well he could have opened up the Astrodome where people could stay.
In fact some of the same people that went to the Superdome during Katrina may have ended up in Houston and would know the drill. :-)
Are there hundreds of casualties every day when people regularly commute around Houston? I didn’t think so. Misrepresentation #1.
#2, logistics experts? Seriously, in a community run by democrats and entrenched politicians. Don’t buy it for a second. Misused monies just like misused monies in New Orleans for levee maintenance.
The Democrats learned from Katrina that they can permanently brand a Republican president as a failure if they get a Dem mayor to screw up an emergency such as this. This is their big chance to take Trump down.
Sadly. You’re likely 100% correct!
Blame game.
Need a disaster and dead bodies to be able to blame the President.
Watching evacuations right now. They are not having to move them far to get up from the flooded zones.
Sandy happened and Obama exploited it by appearing with Chris Christie a week or so before the re-election voting took place. The photo op made Obama appear ‘above politics’ and was a big win for him.
That’s the way it seems to me too. Let me add this.
If it is known that an area would be vulnerable in a certain region, then part of the highway planning should be done keeping these times in mind.
Build excess infrastructure so that when things like this happen, outbound flows can be facilitated.
I would add, part of the tax structure in these vulnerable areas should be elevated to help prepare for such emergencies.
Perhaps another good plan would be to create concrete structures where hundreds of thousands could be evacuated to in the nearest more elevated regions.
Even if just cots, some food, and port-a-poties were provided in addition to elevated outward flow, you could provide safety to an awful lot of people.
Perhaps all school gymnasiums in regions like this should be required to be storm proof, and perhaps oversized too, just to handle things like this.
If folks put their heads together, there are a lot of things that could be done.
Nope, in fifty years they’ll do it all over with no more planning than now.
I work in logistics. All of my shipments going into Houston and the surrounding areas have been pushed back to after Labor Day.
ABC News on it:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/houston-mayor-defends-decision-issue-evacuation-order/story?id=49453471
Dallas News:
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/weather/2017/08/27/trump-plans-texas-trip-soon-disruptive
Daily Beast:
Houston Told People to Stay for Harvey, Now They Can’t Get Out
http://www.thedailybeast.com/houston-told-people-to-stay-for-harvey-now-they-cant-get-out
Diversity, that’s how.
From the Daily Beast story:
By Sunday morning, thousands of Houston homes were taking on water and thousands of people were trapped in their homes. The city received 56,000 calls to 911 by 1 p.m. on Sunday.
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They knew the storm was coming four days ago and it was for sure a major flooding event.
Houston has HOV lanes. Those could have been used to be bus / ambulance evacuation only.
This is going to result in a major loss of life - hundreds if not thousands.
Government knows best. People can’t be trusted to evacuate themselves, they must be guided by Government.
Excuse me while of go throw up.
I don’t care for Turner politically but let’s put that aside for now. He is right, Houston can’t be effectively evacuated. Even if it could it is far too late. It is now a matter of loss management and getting people dry, fed and clean as soon as possible. Much of the city is going to be made uninhabitable.
Sadly, it would be better if Houston took a direct hit and the rain came in the windows and roof instead from rising water that most people don’t have insurance for.
When living on the Gulf Coast I always said to save some 2x4’s to throw through the windows.
Good point on the HOV lanes. Those could be kept open going both ways, so emptied large capacity vehicles could return to make another trip. Good call.
I will say this. Those lanes should be large capacity only, and anyone moving their single family size car into them should have their vehicle impounded with a massive fine.
The large capacity vehicles going South should be protected some way from idiots going north on that side of the freeway, so there wouldn’t be collisions.
Exits from the number 1 HOV lane going South should be created for this type of an event.
You know, in just a few minutes we have touched on ways to remove hundreds of thousands of people out of the area, if not multiple millions.
Perhaps the best thing to do is craft a number of plans so that nearly all the populace had an out in times of danger.
It might also be a good idea if all elderly people were encouraged perhaps helped to move out of exposed regions, so they wouldn’t be a part of this process when the time came.
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