Anyone heard a peep out of Sheila? That's district and her mayor. Guess she's afraid all the humidity would kink her hair.
Posted on 08/29/2017 5:07:42 AM PDT by RummyChick
The mayor of Houston and Harris County officials were advised two days before Hurricane Harvey made landfall that the storm was brewing into a likely “catastrophic” 5-day weather event that would flood at least 100,000 homes and paralyze Houston.
Yet city and county officials refused to call for a mandatory or even voluntary evacuation of Houston.
The result: Houston and parts of Harris county look like flooded battlefields, with residents clinging to rooftops of their homes while rescue workers — both professional and volunteer — risk their lives to save untold thousands in distress.
Houston and Harris county’s four commissioners were briefed on Thursday morning, August 24 after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers warned officials that Hurricane Harvey, which at that point had not made landfall, was shaping up to impact the region even worse than Hurricane Allison in 2001. That storm killed 22 in Houston, left 30,000 residents stranded, and damaged over $5 billion of property.
The officials were given ample time to evacuate the city, federal officials and correspondences examined by True Pundit confirmed.
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A scheme should be mentioned as to *how* a major city, with several days warning, should be evacuated. It is not hard at all to imagine.
Start with a city wide canvass with city employees and the help of support organizations and volunteers, going door to door to locate elderly, disabled, and other persons not easily able to evacuate. At the same time order hospitals, hospices and nursing homes to create rosters of all patients and caregivers.
Mobilize bus and other public transport, as well as tow truck companies, the latter being stationed at intervals on evacuation routes, and authorized to tow disabled vehicles off the road.
People with vehicles with be evacuated in waves, based on their license plate numbers, over the course of several days. Police vehicles with instant license plate scanners will direct vehicles without that days numbers onto secondary evacuation routes.
Set up a phone bank able to systematically call every phone number in the city, with recorded messages of important information, with the ability to also request additional assistance of several kinds.
Set up “checkpoints” far outside the disaster area, for people to make inquiries, report missing individuals, coordinate with support agencies, and other vital services. These should also be communications nodes.
Of course, there are a lot of other things to do, but this would be a great start to an orderly process.
Joe Bastardi knew. I heard him say in on Hannity’s show last Friday afternoon.
Who says you gotta protect stuff from looters? People can squawk about stuff. Tell them to talk to the hand. Lives matter, not stuff. And I can say that as someone who’s been there, done that, and scrubbed the flood mud outta the tshirt. In fact, I’m sitting here stuned (sic) at just how little some things have changed in 45 fricking years. This is infuriating and appalling.
Agreed, but the arm chair quarterbacks still know better :)
The Mayor and Republican commissioners disagree on many things, so when they agree 100% on something, it means there was not a viable alternative... because if there was, one side would have picked it just to have an issue to disagree on.
Realistic: Low areas get evacuated, first, and early.
No big hit on resources or on highways.
It’s the only rational thing to do.
When they start your genius plan, days before the hurricane hits shore, spend millions of dollars and disrupt even more lives... and then the hurricane goes someplace else.
You think anyone trusts them next time?
If you’ve noticed in the news conferences, there are NO White men among those in charge of city government in Houston. This was the chance for those diversity specialists to do something except collect taxes. They failed, so the White guys in their boats are saving citizens’ lives. Reality bites.
Addicks Dam is hours away from overflowing.
The trash Katrina blew into Houston should feel right at home as they continue to vote for demoncrats.
What is the deal with the white Republican Judge who was involved with this..he shut down the law firm that had send the warning post to friends...telling them to shut up.
If an evac order was given, the roads would quickly have become clogged. This would have inconvenienced any VIPs who wanted to quickly evacuate.
In any true disaster, do not expect politicians to alert the expendable "little people".
In other words..you are fine with govt officials lying about the severity to it’s citizens so they cant make informed decisions.
I lived through a Houston hurricane. I was too stupid then and there was no such thing as the internet.
If the Mayor had downplayed it I would have listened to him and stayed put..and where I was living at the time..I would need to be evacuated.
These days..no way.
He should not have lied to his citizens.
A bird tinkling in Houston will cause a flood. Gee, with no zoning laws, what could possibly go wrong?
Its pretty stupid to think there isn’t an evacuation plan in place.
And if there isn’t an evacuation plan in place...they are beyond stupid. Negligent would not even begin to cover it.
See too, Evacuations in effect August 25, 2017 (mostly, but not all, voluntary)
Anyone heard a peep out of Sheila? That's district and her mayor. Guess she's afraid all the humidity would kink her hair.
Someone at the top of the political dogpile in Houston made a serious error in judgment.
Will the Control-LEFT media have the gumption to cover the story. /retorical question
I still don’t see anyone who will admit on this thread that they are willing to be lied to by the govt if a disaster is about to strike where they live
Democrats don’t believe in God cause they think they are Him.
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