In Houston Area 911 Not Responding – Pleas For Help Over Social Media

IWB ^ | Ruby Henley

[Political Junkie Too]

So that's Wednesday. I live here and I can say that on Wednesday, nobody was acting like this was going to be a 900 year storm. It was a normal Houston workday.

Even if someone were to begin calling for an evacuation on Wednesday, you would first have to get all of Houston home from work to get their families. You wouldn't realistically start the mass evacuation until Thursday, which means the roads would be clogged when the rains came on Friday and Saturday.

But I ask again... on Wednesday Harvey was a tropical wave in the Bay of Campeche that turned into a tropical depression later in the day. What "reasonable man" would start an evacuation of a city based on a tropical wave that is 700 miles away?

-PJ

[Political Junkie Too]

Warned about what, and when?

Look at the timeline in my post #77. Harvey wasn't a hurricane until Friday. It was a tropical wave on Wednesday that was 700 miles away.

When does one start calling for mass evacuations? Wednesday? Thursday, it was a tropical storm - do you evacuate for a tropical storm? After Thursday, it's too late.

If Harvey did not stall where it did, this would all be moot. Fifty miles west, east, or north, and the rain patterns would have been different.

I don't think a "reasonable person" makes that call on Wednesday when the storm is still a tropical wave that is 700 miles away.

Do you?

-PJ