Sorry you need to read the article.
The Mayor of Houston is a Democrat that hates President Trump.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3581197/posts
Dear Lester Holt and any other newscaster that feels the need to criticize our governor and/or mayors:
We are a big, big city. We have twice as many people in Houston than you have in Manhattan. We are 2200 square miles big. We are experiencing what could possibly be the worse storm in history. Our roads are flooded, our houses are under siege and there is no end in sight for the next couple of days. We don’t need you or any other liberal newscaster coming down here to try to stir things up. Evacuation decisions were made to try to keep the roads open for coastal residents who had to evacuate. With this historic flooding, Texans are bringing their boats into the city to help get fellow Texans to safety. We aren’t looking to affix blame, we are trying to survive and help one another. If you aren’t here to help, get the hell out. We don’t need your petty, snarky comments meant to sow seeds of division. We don’t operate that way down here and we don’t like people that do.
Sincerely,
The Great State of Texas and Houstonians
The mayor was probably told to not evacuate so the mediadnc could blame Trump.
So what. Evacuation is seriously over-rated as a hurricane strategy. It is costly, strains infrastructure beyond its capacity, and involves multiple hazards of its own. Governments love evacuation because they think it makes SAR problems go away, and exculpates them. It takes some integrity to resist this easy solution that imposes severe burdens on citizens.
Thank you.
Those who ducked the forced evacuation in parts of State Island during Sandy either drowned or put emergency workers’ lives at incredible risk.
And this isn’t the “Free Republic of The South” board. Every day we north easterners get slammed on here. I’m from the east and I’m quite conservative and a monthly donor to FR.
Besides, I do ENOUGH bashing of Manhattan on here for everybody. :)
And it comes from first hand accounts!!
That’s true, but I don’t see him doing this to get at Trump. The problem, it seems, is that evacuating Houston is a damned if you do, damned if you don’t scenario.
It’s hard to evacuate for a lot of geographical and structural reasons, and IIRC, a number of people died when they tried to evacuate it before Katrina.
Nonsense. I read the article, and I don't know where you get the "hate" from.
I know political incompetence when I see it, and I'm not seeing it. I'm here, and my television has been on local coverage non-stop.
There has been NOTHING political about the decisions that were made.
You're not from this area, are you? Your profiles don't fly a flag.
-PJ
Let's get past the politics. This morning, there were several callers into Washington Journal about how when they evacuated for Hurricane Rita, approximately 100 lives were lost, and that was with just over 1 million evacuated.
As with most hurricanes, this one was unpredictable. Besides that, there are 4 million (?) people and only about 24 hours notice of just how bad it would be. And evacuate them to where? It would've been a calamity if traffic snarled and got stuck on flooded roads. It might've made it impossible to get around Houston and save the people who couldn't survive the calamity on their own.
This does seem to be a disaster with no perfect solution. A part of the problem is that so much of the flood plain has been developed and destroyed, so the ground doesn't soak up as much water as it once did. And the population in harms way has increased massively.
Let's not blame anyone. Instead, thank God we have a President whose whole life is designing and implementing construction projects. We can have hope that the rebuilding will be done responsibly.
Doesn’t mean he’s not right. Trying to evacuate 4 1/2 million people in 48 hours would have been a total debacle.
Being a Democrat and hating President Trump does not necessarily make his call wrong.