WaveProf wrote:
GreenieBacker wrote:
The Governor of TX asked Houston's Mayor to call for a controlled evacuation the Mayor said that wasn't necessary. I wonder if he would like a do over.
The mayor has consistently defended his decision since the flood.
And the more I read about it, the more I'm
Starting to feel like he's right.
10 people have died so far in Harvey.
As many as 109 died during the Rita evacuation (and Rita missed Houston after all).
Driving through Houston on a normal Thursday at evening rush hour is an impassible slog. I used to time my drive from New Orleans to my folks place in Austin in order to hit Houston at non-peak times. The infrastructure there is simply abysmal. No public transit to speak of, 6 million people, and only 4 highways. If they had ordered an evacuation on Thursday, in all likelihood thousands would still have been trapped in traffic on the now flooded highways when Harvey hit. It would have been an unimaginable humanitarian disaster.
The time to order an evacuation would have been days before landfall-- at which point Harvey didn't even have a name yet.