Ah, Houston. The same city that elected David Dinkins’ police chief Lee “Get Out of Town” Brown Mayor (after he was almost lynched by normally liberal New Yorkers for his incompetance), and that invited the Katrinamals into their city out of a sense of “christian duty” (how’s that working out for you!).
Bill White was the one who opened the city’s doors to the Katrina evacuees and even supported busing them to/from NOLA to vote. He challenged those who held contracts for the facilities at the George R. Brown to sue the city (we pay, not Bill) for losing the convention center space they’d rented and contracted for.
They flooded the roads in deep panic and a clusterf*** that was not even ADDRESSED until 12 hours into the matter (gridlock was not discussed until sunrise) followed by the advice to “shelter in place” when we got a direct hit by a hurricane and no power for 3 weeks.
Some people in Pompeii tried to hunker down too and that didn’t work so well for them.
PS
As we “get off of gasoline” we won’t be able to drive our cars for WEEKS when there is no power to charge them back up again.