During the live feed, they had a reporter who was on scene of a very busy gas station. It would come as no surprise to members here, that the people affected were not prepared in any way and were waiting for substantial amounts of time to fuel their vehicles before leaving the area.
That's almost cliché. During any large evacuation, there will be lines at ATMs and gas stations around the evacuation zone.
IMO, It's not cliche, more like unprepared. This dam has been in declining condition all week and I first seen the
reports on the 7th. By the 9th, the problems were with the dam were widely reported but it was not until this weekend that the danger was raised to imminent and the reason for the evacuation.
I am sure there will be a lot of armchair quarterbacking on why the call for evac was not done sooner etc. However the fact that the dam had sustained damage earlier in the week, would have been cause for me to start preparing then and not wait until the last minute which is all too often the case for those without a preparedness mindset- no matter the disaster.
BTW, my early interest in this dam and evac is because we have old friends in that area, but they are upstream and in no danger.
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