Instead of attacking the messenger last Friday..some of you might have wanted to consider that a law firm who refuses to say something was fabricated might be indicating there was truth in the info that came from their address.
And that a Dem Mayor might lie
There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know.
Rumsfeld's quote ought be hanging on every emergency manager's office wall. Plan accordingly.
Somewhere in the back of all this evac-talk....one has to wonder where they would have housed two or three million people, and how this would have worked. The obvious route would have been I-45 or I-69 (all north). Even if the state and federal folks had the US military lined up....it’s hard to imagine twenty camps set up 200 miles north of the city and able to handle 50,000 people each.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think anyone has ever done a FEMA-like exercise to handle one-million residents on some evacuation order.
It seemed a strong likelihood last week that the high pressure system to the west and north of Houston would do just as the weather people were saying, ie, block the westward and nortward progress of a low pressure system. That’s basic meterology.
That’s what happened. That’s why Harvey stalled over the houston area, that’s why an entire hurricane’s woth of rain fell in one location, and that’s why the mayor of houston made a dumb, one-sided statement rather than giving both sides of the equation.
A replay of Katrina when the National Weather Service. Over 7 days before Katrina hit N.O. the NWS said there was 100% certainty that Katrina would flood N.O.
The difference this time is that for Katrina Bush covered for the Democrat Mayor and Governor by saying “Nobody knew” which was in direct contradiction of the NWS.
This time, Trump is not saying “Nobody knew”.
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What were they thinking? This is the question we ask of the Huston and Harris officials. Are they so deep in the culture of victimization that they want themselves and their citizens to be victims? Do they think there is more handouts if they are victims? Do they think that being victims will give them the ability to blame someone else for their victimhood?
Seriously, what goes through the minds of both the N.O. and now the Houston/Harris officials?
Another interesting twist is whether the Judge and the Dem Mayor will get sued by the person who posted the info given what happened to her.
A law firm is involved. Seems like they will look to build a case.
Don’t know if there is one.
In the spirit of chief Moose, RayNagin, and Soetoro, Sharptoon and Jackson, it’s all racist clap trap.
WOW! What is it with Democrats? The mayor should have passed that info on. Done a voluntary evacuation and moved out children & the elderly.
They’ll be plenty of time for finger-pointing later. There’s a bigger task at hand now.
The Gov could have called for a mandatory evac and he didn’t. Why? Because there’s a population of 2.3 million people in Houston, not to mention the other cities & towns in the surrounding areas.
Send in Shep Smith he has his glycerin and water-proof mascara ready for deployment.
Can you give us an example of an evacuation such as you envision working successfully?
This is absurd.
Why did anyone in Houston have to wait for an evacuaion order ?
Somehow, they will find a way to blame everything on Adolf Trump. /s
A scheme should be mentioned as to *how* a major city, with several days warning, should be evacuated. It is not hard at all to imagine.
Start with a city wide canvass with city employees and the help of support organizations and volunteers, going door to door to locate elderly, disabled, and other persons not easily able to evacuate. At the same time order hospitals, hospices and nursing homes to create rosters of all patients and caregivers.
Mobilize bus and other public transport, as well as tow truck companies, the latter being stationed at intervals on evacuation routes, and authorized to tow disabled vehicles off the road.
People with vehicles with be evacuated in waves, based on their license plate numbers, over the course of several days. Police vehicles with instant license plate scanners will direct vehicles without that days numbers onto secondary evacuation routes.
Set up a phone bank able to systematically call every phone number in the city, with recorded messages of important information, with the ability to also request additional assistance of several kinds.
Set up “checkpoints” far outside the disaster area, for people to make inquiries, report missing individuals, coordinate with support agencies, and other vital services. These should also be communications nodes.
Of course, there are a lot of other things to do, but this would be a great start to an orderly process.
If you’ve noticed in the news conferences, there are NO White men among those in charge of city government in Houston. This was the chance for those diversity specialists to do something except collect taxes. They failed, so the White guys in their boats are saving citizens’ lives. Reality bites.
Addicks Dam is hours away from overflowing.
The trash Katrina blew into Houston should feel right at home as they continue to vote for demoncrats.
A bird tinkling in Houston will cause a flood. Gee, with no zoning laws, what could possibly go wrong?
I don’t mind beating up on Dems, but I drove back to Houston on Thursday afternoon and it was already raining hard. By Friday we had flooding.
We have 6 Million people here, and a total of about 6 freeway lanes to the north and east (i.e., that wouldn’t run right into the storm) to move them out (maybe 10 with contra-flow, maybe).
Not a prayer on getting them out, instead it would have been a repeat of Hurricane Rita, with one exception. Back during Rita, people could turn around and go home. With this storm they would have been trapped in their cars due to high water, until rescued.
Not pretty here, but this storm was not nearly as easy to deal with as a hurricane barrelling in from the Caribbean, with 3 to 5 days of notice and all roads clear for evacuation...and even then, we still can only evacuate a limited number of people.
My extended family has an active Facebook group, one of the primary reasons I stick with Facebook. With five households of relatives in Houston, I watched as they planned for their own evacuation and the evacuations of their in-laws. As a precaution, valuables were moved out of low-lying homes, and our people followed well before the storm hit. Some are in Houston on high ground, and others left town, also to high ground, but all are staying in the homes of relatives, with pets, with photo albums, jewelry, business records, and computers, and with their guns. The water could rise more than 20 feet without displacing any of my relatives.
Preparation even for this level of flooding is not as hard as people try to make it sound. None of the families are facing issues worse than crowding. They didn’t sit in traffic while relocating. They refilled medications and started with food, diapers, and water for a month, and we’re not even Mormons. At least three of the families face substantial damage to their (insured) homes, but no one faced personal danger.