[Political Junkie Too]

Yes, the Republican governor said they should probably evacuate. That he would if he lived there. The Democrat Mayor and the Republican judge over emergency services told them to stay put.

If I recall correctly, talk of evacuation was about the fear of a category 4 hurricane making landfall.

Corpus Christi was evacuating. Rockport was evacuating. South Padre Island was evacuating voluntarily. Galveston was talking about evacuating.

But Houston was not considering evacuating due to the fear of high wind and storm surge damage because they are a lot further inland.

At the beginning, nobody was talking about evacuating because of a fear of flooding days later. Most people expected the storm to bounce back into the Gulf and move east, so wind damage was top of mind.

-PJ

[a fool in paradise]

By Thursday were were already aware that the storm was project to linger in the area dropping water with some models suggesting it would return to the gulf and pick up more water as Allison had done in 2001.

[RitaOK]

2 million people pouring out of Houston, northward? Ridiculous.

In this magnitude of storm there are bound to be mistakes, but so far instead of 1900 dead, as Katrina, there are reportedly 6.

Those were in a car traveling.

The mayor did fine.

He was concerned foremost with his mandatory evac of the most vulnerable getting out of lower lying areas in a timely manner.

He is not the mayor of Rockport, I think.