CavemanCharlie wrote:
So nobody is in charge of anything down there???
Kind of - the big problem is too many people are in charge of their small part of the big picture.
CavemanCharlie wrote:
it sounds from what your saying a lot of the problem is because there is no one in charge.
Folks down in this region are more setup for short fast moving disaster situations like tornados and major wind damage storms.
Small local area disasters.
Wide area emergencies like these ice storms are not something we do well.
No the mayor can't close the schools, nor the County Judge (an administrative title in Texas and other states) not the Governor unless he declares a certain type of disaster has already occurred.
That said - what happened in Atlanta wasn't a disaster. It was a massive inconvenience, it caught a lot of people stopped where they should not have been. It made a lot of money for the news media, tow truck companies and a few others. And nice entertainment for a lot of the country.
Few people were in life threatening situations.
There were four lives lost during the ice storm in the DFW area in December that I remember. Which is actually fewer than a normal weekend.
Including one very unfortunate young lady, who skidded on an icy bridge and went into the lake. She should not have been out driving on the ice before dawn. But she had a relatively new job, and her employer had a no excuses absence policy. If she missed a day without prior permission, she would be fired. So she felt she had to go to work.
