RE: Hurricane Harvey
August 29, 2017 at 9:35 pm
(This post was last modified: August 29, 2017 at 9:43 pm by Seraphina.)
(August 29, 2017 at 6:37 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: In 2011, we had enough warning time for the flood, and the area affected, while very long, was quite narrow. Folks had time to load up all their stuff and 'head for the hills'. My farm is high enough we had folks farther out on the Missouri bottoms store farm equipment here. A friend of ours was going to bring his camper here if water threatened his location, and I had a full camper hook up ready (electricity, sewer and water) but fortunately he was fine where he was.
In Houston, where's the nearby high ground? Where's the nearby areas not under water or threatening to flood? Where's the nearby areas able to absorb large numbers of folks displaced by the water? And they didn't have the lead time we did either.
From what I've seen, those places don't exist in Houston. I'm not sure what I would do if faced with the same situation as Houstonians. I'd like to think I'd get the hell out of Dodge but if I had a 2 story house, I might try to ride it out too.
4 million residents of Houston...anyone without enough $$ to leave quick and look for a hotel inland or a place to stay away from the storm basically had to make a choice in a big hurry between two dystopias - your neighborhood under 10 feet of water or a possibly squalid indoor refugee encampment evacuation center.
ETA: According to The Houston Chronicle, 107 people died during the mass evacuation craziness of millions in Texas during Hurricane Rita in 2005.
http://www.chron.com/news/hurricanes/art...502590.php
-Teresa
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