Why were all the RV's left in the flood?
I understand that sometimes you can't move an RV when the water is coming up but it looks like there's a lot of RV's that were just left to flood. I mine were there I'd have moved it up the road and o...
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Move them where? It is a long way to high ground and Gulf Coast hurricanes tend to move a long distance inland.
The Texas coastal plain stretches inland to roughly I-35. When only a few tens of thousands of folks evacuated west for Rita the 200 miles to San Antonio became a 12-hour drive. The highway to Dallas took even longer, and the hurricane followed those folks to Dallas.
Forecasters can only roughly predict the path or how far it will get before losing energy and drying out. Hurricane Agnes (1972) hit the Gulf Coast at western Florida, got all the way up to drown Corning, New York. If you went north on that evacuation, it was the wrong direction.
The Texas coastal plain stretches inland to roughly I-35. When only a few tens of thousands of folks evacuated west for Rita the 200 miles to San Antonio became a 12-hour drive. The highway to Dallas took even longer, and the hurricane followed those folks to Dallas.
Forecasters can only roughly predict the path or how far it will get before losing energy and drying out. Hurricane Agnes (1972) hit the Gulf Coast at western Florida, got all the way up to drown Corning, New York. If you went north on that evacuation, it was the wrong direction.
