Millions tried evacuating Houston before Rita hit shortly after Katrina.
That was a disaster in itself.
In other words the Democrats create and exploit tragedies for political gain.
I really think that the Mayor was hoping that a lot of his constituents would stay in their homes and drown. Then he could blame Trump — to make an omelet, you must break a few eggs.
Yep I wonder when the media and liberals will blame this on Trump.
Has anyone blamed the hurricane on global warming yet? Anyone blame it on Trump pulling out of the Paris agreement yet???
“You can sure as bet your bottom dollar that the Democrat Mayor stood down on purpose, even though he was told this is the storm of the century, in order to get the Fake Stream News to blame President Trump. “
Nonsense.
No matter what the guy decided he would have been criticized.
In these days of social media there is a lot of armchair quarterbacking going on.
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Millions tried evacuating Houston before Rita hit shortly after Katrina.
That was a disaster in itself.
The DemonRats would rather cause chaos than see Trump be successful.
Sylvester should be a police officer in Berkeley.
The ultimate responsibility for one’s security belongs to the individual, not the state. If your mental faculties do not allow you to make an informed decision, you play the hand dealt to you.
You take the best information that you have and then you make a decision.
The weather people were predicting big rain from this a ways out.
1. Save lives.
2. Save property.
3. Make sure it doesn’t happen again.
Mayors running their mouths about diversity and global warming and immigration don’t do a damn thing to help #3.
I've been watching Turner since he'd been elected (I live north of Houston proper and out of his jurisdiction), and he never struck me as the type to do that. He's a local who "grew up" in the Houston political machine, and has been wanting to be mayor for a very long time. I've been impressed with his appearances during the hurricane press conferences. He seems to know what he's doing, and marshalling all the agencies at his disposal. He does not appear to be behaving like Ray Nagin.
During the storm, many local jurisdiction leaders were stopping short of mandating evacuations, saying they didn't want to put emergency responders in danger over stubborn people who refused to leave.
I've been told by long-time locals that, because Houston is so flat, the highway system was designed to become water catch-basins during severe storms. This was intentional to keep the water out of neighborhoods. This is why the roads become impassable and the city gridlocks, but the homes don't flood.
I think this is so much bigger than anyone expected. I hear people say that when Houston evacuated from Ike, people only made it as far as Conroe because the roads were stopped. It may be that it is just too impractical to evacuate a city the size of Houston in such a short period of time.
Today's situation is aggravated by the release of water in the dams. Yesterday, officials were thanking the citizen responders with flat boats, saying that today "professional" help would be arriving. However, the citizens are not stopping, and they are proving useful as their boats can get into areas where the flooding is not deep enough for many of the new vehicles that are arriving.
Now we are waiting for the water up north to flow down through Houston as it makes its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
-PJ
NAGIN II
It’s not just preventing death from the immediate storm.
Now you have a large number of people that need electricity and water and food and medical attention and it’s hard to get stuff to the site.
This response from the Mayor is a coverup for his poor decision making.
You can’t evacuate an entire city with that kind of population. It has to happen in stages ... vulnerable citizens (ill, elderly, etc) in low lying areas first. Then all citizens from low areas. Then next lowest, etc. Any areas that are not prone to flooding do not have priority. That’s the way it should work. But you absolutely can not evacuate that entire metropolis ... it’s not possible.
Sometimes bad stuff happens and there is little that puny humans can do about it. Evacuating would probably been as bad as not.
But now everyone gets to second guess.
Where would you evacuate millions of people to and how would you do it?
Moving that many people before a hurricane would cause more problems that it solved. Too many people cause too many problems. Simple as that.
Sounds easy in theory but almost impossible in reality.
When you live below sea level (New Orleans) or barely above sea level close to the coast (Houston), this is what should be expected on a regular basis when severe weather hits.
It's another example of Mother Nature doing what she wants, not what humans try to get her to do.
The Houston Mayor wants plenty of victims for the media to use against Trump ala’ Katrina and New Orleans.
Houston 25% White alone, not Black, not Hispanic.........
Looks like the majority of the minorities are going to suffer disproportionally, as they always do...... means all those Privileged Whites will be on the higher ground or out of town..