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Houston doesn't have a population of 6.5 Million people. There are many Cities within the Houston Metro Area and each of those Cities have their own Government. The Mayor of Houston may think he rules over all of them, but that is simply not the case. The "where would they go" part is a bit more reasonable - the answer to that one is "they go where the Houston Metro Area has planned they would go". The Mayor of the small town of Port Aransas said his town does Evacuation drills and meetings 3 times a year, Corpus does the same. Port A has ONLY 2 routes out of town .... that certainly is not the case for the Houston Metro area - or even Houston itself.
Perhaps our Houston City residents can tell us how often the City of Houston has practiced or done meetings on Evacuations. The Houston Mayor himself admitted it wasn't a matter of "no place to go", it was a matter of the 2005 Evacuation during Rita ..... which was really done in a fit of Mass Hysteria in reaction to Katrina.
Mayor Turner and his Team made a decision - they didn't put up road block to force people to stay and be caught in this Flood. He made that decision against advise from FEMA, the Texas Governor, National Hurricane Center and ALL predictions. His Choice. Houston's Choice.
He's also been pretty much MIA since the rains began.
2.3 million in Houston and 6.9 million in Houston metro. Where would they go? Then what? So many have or will lose everything.
Houston accepted about 200,000 evacuees from Louisiana after Katrina and was strained to meet their needs.
Media is reporting Dallas has agreed to accept 5000 evacuees.
Maybe it's time for Texas to consider imposing a state tax to take care of damaged infrastructure and disaster recovery sites throughout the state.
Nice try. The "Fake News" CNN was on the air talking about how Trump was "Hijacking" the News on the Hurricane, instead of talking about what people should do, while they, themselves where not reporting on the Storm but hijacking the Station to bash Trump. Your precious.
If the Democrat sore losers would decide to help Trump, instead of destroy him, there would be a lot more positions filled in his cabinet. Of course you forgot that part, right? You have to love these Liberal Snowflakes.
The reason Trump hasn't filled many, many government positions is that he has run out of "buddies" to fill these jobs. The Trump administration is incompetent.
The failure of local government to request that a mandatory evacuation take place. Maybe.
A 100 year storm sitting in place dumping feet of rain, that's the problem. Remember you can't fool mother nature. She will always find the weak area.
It didn't even have to be a "mandatory evacuation" ...... there have been about 4 major Flood Events in Houston in the last 4 years - due to heavy rain. They KNEW the problem areas, turns out it was a whole lot bigger (which they were warned of) that the Problem areas they knew about.
Busses were ready - both from Houston, FEMA, Texas Task Force and Texas Emergency Management - the Houston busses are lined up for over a mile on US 59 .... never offered, never used.
The storm only became an issue around Thursday. There wasn't enough time to evacuate.
There is never enough time for a major metropolitan area to evacuate in anticipation of an unprecedented 1000 year storm. There's no telling how long it will take to recover.
Texas AG reporting that hotels beyond the flooding areas, are sold out and price gouging.
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Nice try. The "Fake News" CNN was on the air talking about how Trump was "Hijacking" the News on the Hurricane, instead of talking about what people should do, while they, themselves where not reporting on the Storm but hijacking the Station to bash Trump. Your precious.
If the Democrat sore losers would decide to help Trump, instead of destroy him, there would be a lot more positions filled in his cabinet. Of course you forgot that part, right? You have to love these Liberal Snowflakes.
Really? TrumpPutin is quite adept at destroying himself and his party controls all branches of Government now so why would he need the Democrat sore losers anyways?
I wonder what part do Trump supporters not understand when your so -called "fake news" says that you will have 50 inches of rain pour down on you and is life threatening that they don't get?
Oh!
They don't get the Meterological /Scientific part !
It didn't even have to be a "mandatory evacuation" ...... there have been about 4 major Flood Events in Houston in the last 4 years - due to heavy rain. They KNEW the problem areas, turns out it was a whole lot bigger (which they were warned of) that the Problem areas they knew about.
Busses were ready - both from Houston, FEMA, Texas Task Force and Texas Emergency Management - the Houston busses are lined up for over a mile on US 59 .... never offered, never used.
Same to you too! We're on the 3rd floor. Just took my pups out after this last round of rain and no flooding (at least here).
That's good to hear! I hope you have plenty of food for a few days, but you're probably better off than we are now. We live in a house. It's going to be a long night.
In the Houston area, the muddled flight from the city killed almost as many people as Rita did. an estimated 2.5 million people hit the road ahead of the storm’s arrival, creating some of the most insane gridlock in U.S. history. More than 100 evacuees died in the exodus. Drivers waited in traffic for 20-plus hours, and heat stroke impaired or killed dozens. Fights broke out on the highway. A bus carrying nursing home evacuees caught fire, and 24 died.
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