"Mobile homes" flipped

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.""