"Mobile homes" flipped

Why were they still there? Did they not get the word that a Hurricane was coming? Drive an hour or so north and they'd be out of danger. Hard to feel sorry for them.

Yes, the media often gets things wrong when reporting on things outside their sphere of knowledge. I was driven near crazy on the first day of Harvey coverage when several national cable news anchors referred to "Port Arkansas" Texas. No such place. It is Port Aransas. Here, they could not even read the word properly off a map.

azdryheat wrote:
Why were they still there? Did they not get the word that a Hurricane was coming? Drive an hour or so north and they'd be out of danger. Hard to feel sorry for them.

As I know none of the people affected nor their personal situations, I have no problem feeling sorry for and praying for them. There but for the grace of God go I.

Yes, when a person can personally identify with a news story somehow, they soon learn how often the news media is wrong and has no idea what they're talking about.

Sort of like Don Henley's song Dirty Laundry.

Bill

Trackrig wrote:
Yes, when a person can personally identify with a news story somehow, they soon learn how often the news media is wrong and has no idea what they're talking about.

Sort of like Don Henley's song Dirty Laundry.

Bill

I dated a TV news person about that time. They used to love that song more than American Pie. Even for that period she had more class than anybody in any of the 3 newsrooms in that market. She went on to be a producer and now is Corporate VP from communications in a Forbes top 250 corporation. The best thing with her position then was that I would help her with her police beat stuff and help her understand the ins and outs of police work.

DiskDoctr wrote:
Appreciate the coverage, though calling 5th wheels and Travel trailers "mobile homes" is a bit off.

Don't lose any sleep over it. I know people who refer to Travel Trailers as Motor Homes. Some people will never get it.

jjjandrbaker wrote:
As I know none of the people affected nor their personal situations, I have no problem feeling sorry for and praying for them. There but for the grace of God go I.

X2

I did some quick calculating. At three people per vehicle, it would have taken one million cars stretching over 5,000 miles to totally evacuate Houston. That and a lot of spare beds. Not everyone has the ability to jump in their car and drive to safety.

TomG2 wrote:

jjjandrbaker wrote:
As I know none of the people affected nor their personal situations, I have no problem feeling sorry for and praying for them. There but for the grace of God go I.

X2

I did some quick calculating. At three people per vehicle, it would have taken one million cars stretching over 5,000 miles to totally evacuate Houston. That and a lot of spare beds. Not everyone has the ability to jump in their car and drive to safety.

And that is 'exactly' what happened during the last disaster that hit Texas. They told so many people to evacuate at one time that the roads where completely jammed AND '60 people died' on those roads alone.

Which is why the Mayor this time told people in his town not to evacuate. And the the gov is standing behind his decision that there would be less loss of life if they stayed. Because so many people died on the roads last time vs only 5 dead now. I'd say they made the right decision. Albiet losing just one life is still a tragedy.


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""Houston area officials who urged people to stay home before the storm may have been remembering that the city government was strongly criticized after the disastrous evacuation before Hurricane Rita in 2005.

In the hours before Rita struck the Houston area in September 2005, government officials issued an evacuation order, and some 2.5 million people hit the road at the same time, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Officials later reported more than 100 deaths connected to Hurricane Rita — and at least 60 of those deaths were linked the evacuation itself

""Dozens were injured or died of heat stroke waiting in traffic for nearly a full day. Fights broke out on clogged highways. A charter bus carrying people from a nursing home exploded on the side of Interstate 45, killing 24 people inside.

“We know that there’s going to result in a certain number of deaths just by having so many people on the road,”

""After Rita, officials began changing laws and government programs to improve future evacuations.""

Blah blah blah. Haul it away when a storm is coming or shut up.

its just makes no sense to stay when you new this was a nasty storm , they only had a ten day notice .