Good story. Why don’t these governors make evacuation MANDATORY, instead of stay at your own risk? Charge the people that are stupid with the cost of rescue if they are not home bed ridden people. Every PD should have a list of such people and make sure they are evacuated.
>Good story. Why don’t these governors make evacuation MANDATORY, instead of stay at your own risk?
Because they didn’t want a traffic jam. Traditionally asking people to think about leaving results in a lot of people leaving, but not all at once. However in this case the Mayor of city screwed them over.
There are so many reasons that evacuation as the go-to policy is a terrible idea.
If everyone in Houston tried to evacuate the city, you’d have tens of thousands of people drowning in their cars.