Me either. I just saw something on FOX that I did not like. An elderly woman died when a tree fell on her house. It was..what was she thinking...why didn’t she evacuate..etc...etc. Good grief. At least the guy made a comment that she might have been told to stay.
You are right, MANY people were told to stay...I was amazed. Not that they should have evacuated the WHOLE city of houston, but my neighborhood was mandatorily evacuated and the one across the street from me was told to “hunker down”. It was a little crazy and I certainly have no faith for sure now in the Judge or Bill White....especially not the crazy woman in Galveston either.. ;0)
Sounds like a freak accident. Trees aint that big to crash through houses here
Reports were that many/most of those that did not evacuate were the elderly. The Mayor’s indecision and only calling for a voluntary evacuation so long may well have doomed them to a rough night. By the time they saw the storm surge, it was too late for them to arrange a way out.
One older lady, in a report I read earlier, awoke at 1:30 and decided to get out of bed to check on things. She stepped into a foot and a half of storm surge. I really hope the guy down by the beach made it. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did.
I guess what worries me the most is the SAR team stuck and them calling for boats to survey the rest of the island. It might mean something as simple as a breach, or that the flooding is not down enough. It also might be more damage than they can navigate through.
I’ve been through enough lesser storms in my years along the Gulf Coast to know that when they start evacuating barrier islands, it is time to go.