As I said, for me this isn’t about mandatory evacuation. I have been in a houston hurricane.
This is about Dem Mayor and Republic Judge shooting down the leaked Army Corps of Engineers report.
And it shows why you should never trust Govt. officials in a catastrophe..especially when Gov Abbot probably had the same information..and was warning people.
It was a dual of who you should listen to Friday.
I absolutely would have moved to higher ground if I had known I might get 50 inches of rain. Of course, hurricane could have turned. I still would have moved if I knew I was where it could flood.
...but most people don’t know. Where I am, we could get 200 inches of water for the next 3 weeks and not have an issue, as we have direct drainage to the bay. But if the order was issued, most of the people, who are less informed regarding drainage patterns, would have left.
What really needs to be done is a neighborhood-by-neighborhood assessment of who will get flooded and who will not, under the assumption that the storm sewers get overloaded and the rain keeps coming down - then the 80% or so of us who have no issue with this storm can stay put, while the others evacuate. Maybe it’s out there, but I still haven’t seen it.