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Did you really just make three consecutive pictorial posts that proudly tout Houston's traffic congestion, air pollution, vulnerability to hurricanes, lack of viable public transportation, bland geography, and sprawl?!
Strange points of pride, even for you.
And by the way-- I was actually in that traffic mess of the first Hurricane Rita evacuation pic you posted. I lived in a mandatory evacuation zone south of Houston. We evacuated to Tyler. It took 25 hours in 95 degree heat. It was not intimidating, it was revealing of how poorly prepared Houston was for that event.
So was I & so did I. Luckily I lived on the northside back then so it was relatively easy to make it over to I-45.
How the hell is Houston supposed to be prepared for an event of that magnitude that happens once every 100 years? Whats next, your bashing of how Houston wasn't prepared for the winter ice storm that happens once every 50 years?
Speaking of which, Tyler supplied most of the sand trucks for that.
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So was I & so did I. Luckily I lived on the northside back then so it was relatively easy to make it over to I-45.
How is Houston supposed to be prepared for an event of that magnitude that happens once every 100 years? Whats next, your bashing of how Houston wasn't prepared for the winter ice storm that happens every 50 years?
If you evacuated from the north side, over 60 miles inland, you were the problem. Dolts who jammed the freeways to evacuate unnecessarily caused more deaths in the traffic jam than the hurricane produced. Houston's poor management of an evacuation plan revealed its not-ready-for-prime time status.
If you evacuated from the north side, over 60 miles inland, you were the problem. Dolts who jammed the freeways to evacuate unnecessarily caused more deaths in the traffic jam than the hurricane produced. Houston's poor management of an evacuation plan revealed its not-ready-for-prime time status.
I agree that inland evacuees were the problem. I stayed at home and ended up having several leaves blown off all three of my trees. Those days were not Bob White and Ed Emmits best days they should have encouraged people in inland areas to stay in place, and evacuate afterwards if necessary.
As far as how poorly Houston may be prepared, 3 years later Hurricane Ike came through without any repeat of that fiasco
If you evacuated from the north side, over 60 miles inland, you were the problem. Dolts who jammed the freeways to evacuate unnecessarily caused more deaths in the traffic jam than the hurricane produced. Houston's poor management of an evacuation plan revealed its not-ready-for-prime time status.
Houston single handily absorbed between 150,000-250,000 people during New Orleans Hurricane Katrina almost overnight. I'd like to see LA do that.
Between 40,000-90,000 of them remain in Houston depending on which estimate you go by.
Because one is a so called "suburban area" and the other one touts itself as a global city. I would take OC and never venture into LA over Houston, just to be clear. LA over both.
I'm sorry but this nutjob has been allowed to post for this long? I don't have anything against Houston but this guy is a joke. People have spent 4 years trying to knock sense into this goof but he doesn't know when to stop.
Good god those freeways are ridiculously huge. Yes your freeways are huger than Los Angeles' (and unbelievably, Orange County's), but that is not a good thing. And our traffic is still worse, because we are several times denser than Houston with a much lower freeway-lanes per capita rate.
I don't think it would be that big of an issue - honestly I think many cities large and small could handle something like that.
Yeah it would be a big issue especially if you did it overnight.
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