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Yes, and let's not absolve Obama and his lack of response to Katrina. These people seem to have forgotten that. But, everything is Trump's fault! Stupid asses!
Katrina happened in 2005. Obama was inaugurated in 2009 in the midst of the Great Recession where the US was shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs a month.
Yes, for barrier islands, and some areas directly on the beach. The people evacuate few miles in-land, but there is no mass-exodus where millions of people get in their cars and on the roadways. That would create a very dangerous situation.
I have been on vacation on a barrier island with a permanent population of about 7000, on the Gulf when the evacuation was invoked. As a non-resident, we were amongst the first to cut our vacation short. Then again, most island residents who are employed work on the mainland. It literally took hours to cross the bridge to the mainland and hours more to get to Fort Myers airport for what is normally a 30-minute trip.
This was thousands. Houston is millions. Houston Metro is closing in on 7 million and adding almost 500,000 a year, mostly in Harris Cty.
It is not reasonable to expect millions to evacuate a metro area of this size.
Lets hope there won't be looting, but that typically takes place few days after the storm. Houston is an urban area and it has the same problems as all urban areas. Not everyone is a saint.
Not when on ramps are controlled. Ask me how I know. Been through several staged evacuations.
Staged evacuations tend to remove the element of panic. How do they control the ramps when 3 million motorists hit the roads? Make them wait? Well' then you'll have 3 million cars sitting on the roads, and it would impossible for anyone to get anywhere.
^floridanative10 the point of this thread is to point out how unprepared Houston and Texas is for events like this.
Our state of Florida is better prepared.
Most hurricanes I've seen blow through Florida do not stall. They blow through really fast and then go into the Gulf and do more damage in Mississippi or Louisiana or Texas. We're the ones with a whole continent behind us, not a 360 mile width of land mass. You have to realize that Florida and Texas are a whole lot different when it comes to hurricanes.
You'll notice that he's "not taking questions" today...like, WHY the hell did you tell people not to evacuate after the governer did?
Correct. I hope Turner gets fired. He is indirectly responsible for 5 deaths, IMO. We had many days of knowledge that this would be the worst tropical storm/hurricane in history (it looks like it is), and he told us to stay because he was concerned about traffic
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