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Showing Original Post only (View all)Were There Evacuation Orders for Houston before the Storm? [View all]
I don't remember hearing about any. And, as it turns out, now, Houston may be the place that needed them the most. On the coast, people were told to evacuate, but not in Houston, as far as I know.
The potential for casualties is growing.
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So instead of sitting in their homes they would be sitting on the road in their cars?
LisaL
Aug 2017
#29
Yep, local officials were afraid of 2005 and didn't want people to get stuck and drown in their cars
dalton99a
Aug 2017
#6
If I recall people actually died in their vehicles while stuck in traffic during Rita
herding cats
Aug 2017
#14
They tried evacuating Houston during hurricane Rita. All these people just got stuck on the roads.
LisaL
Aug 2017
#26
Yep, it can take 3 hours just to get from one side of town to the other durig rush hours.
trof
Aug 2017
#46
And if there was an evacuation notice, these people would be sitting on the roads in their cars.
LisaL
Aug 2017
#24
Exactly, roads aren't equipped for it and other areas can only absorb so many people. There is also
RKP5637
Aug 2017
#56
I mentioned this just this morning to the hubby. But also pointed out the lack of sandbags in images
kydo
Aug 2017
#28
Gov. Abbott knew two days ago that evacuation plans for Houston would've had to start a day earlier.
highplainsdem
Aug 2017
#36
No. Because 100 people in Houston died during the mandatory evacuation for Hurricane Rita --
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#44
I have relatives in Houston (who are at a previously planned family event in another city now)
pnwmom
Aug 2017
#74
They have a plan, if the area was to be hit with a CAT 5 then they would have to implement plan
uponit7771
Aug 2017
#61