It seems to me that people in certain areas...that knew from past experience they would get hit..should have evacuated.
But then I am not an evacuation expert..just someone who had flood waters to the top of my rental car engine in a houston hurricane.
Ohmygosh. Being trapped in a flooded car is one of my worst nightmares. What did you do?
The worst damage I can imagine is flood damage. Everything is destroyed by the water and its aftermath. Afterwards, unless it's total disaster, you're stuck with drying things out and the repairs, in an area where houses have lost a lot of their value.
I pray for the people stuck there. For many of them, it just might be there were no good solutions, unless they decided to get in the car and go far away long before the most affected areas knew how bad it was going to be.
But where do all these people who are just barely making it go? There just are not enough shelters and where do you put the shelters to be out of the path of the rains and floods inland? We are talking millions of people. Probably at least 2 million who will be flooded. If the rain continues as forecast it will only be more and worse. Some people have cleaned up at least twice in the last two years and more before that. A lot have ZERO flood insurance. Yes, they had a choice to buy it but some flooded areas will have supposedly been safe. This is one of those once in a long time events.
Houston gets more development and more pavement and more covered areas but it really does not matter since there is no place for this much water to go.
This is bad and getting worse. Houston is a terrible place to build a city.