The dem mayor did not order folks to go until 5:00 PM yesterday and only for the western side of the island.... even though the Gov. and the National weather service warned them repeatedly to get out!
Looks like we are in for another Nagin Nada moment!
(snip)
“When Hurricane Ike approached Galveston, on September 10 at noon Thomas said that although she did not expect to be ordering an evacuation, she asked for a voluntary evacuation of the western part of the island. At 5 PM this hardened to a mandatory order and she suggested voluntary evacuation for the rest of the island.
Thomas ordered the full evacuation 9:30 AM on September 11, in a news conference with Galveston County Judge Jim Yarbrough. She told the media at the time that she had wanted to avoid an evacuation order.”
(EYE ROLL)
The mayor may be a prize idiot, but folks ought to exercise some common sense and not wait for some pol to tell ‘em what to do.
I don’t know the mayor of Galveston but in her defense the storm had been projected to hit much farther south on the Texas coast than Galveston. As soon as it appeared to move more toward Galveston she ordered a mandatory evacuation.