“You literally cannot put 6.5 million [people] on the road,” Mayor Sylvester Turner said when asked again Sunday about whether the city should have evacuated. “If you think the situation right now is bad — you give an order to evacuate, you are creating a nightmare.
I really wish people would get off this 'can't evacuate the whole city of 6.5 million' idea. You don't need to evacuate all of Houston. Many of those 6.5 million people are not flooded. However, you can and should try to evacuate those in the most flood prone areas. It is difficult to 'shelter in place', when your place has water up to the eaves!
I am not familiar with the area and only posted what was in the news link. I imagine though, even if they had decided to evac 500,000 to a million people, it would have been a massive undertaking.
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