Democrat Mayor Of Houston Causing A Catastrophic Disaster

[HereWeGoAgain]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

The problem is the majority of people leave at the same time.
They hedge their bets and bail at the last minute making the whole thing a cluster fuck.
We actually went up to I-10 to see how bad it was. Cars sat in the same place for hours. The parking lots lining the freeways were full of people who knew they were going to run out of gas and there was nowhere to get any.
It was a total disaster.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

Dude Really!!
The traffic should flow in opposite directions AS ALL MAJOR FREEWAYS DO!!!!!

 

[Darkwind]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

The problem is the majority of people leave at the same time.
They hedge their bets and bail at the last minute making the whole thing a cluster fuck.
We actually went up to I-10 to see how bad it was. Cars sat in the same place for hours. The parking lots lining the freeways were full of people who knew they were going to run out of gas and there was nowhere to get any.
It was a total disaster.

You'd almost think that they would have something to deal with that. You know, I think they call it a plan or something like that.

Say, if a big ass mother effin storm is heading your way and will be there in...oh I don't know....say five days, why you could divvy up the area into five separate sections and then move them out in 20% increments, or something like that. Those who stay behind or don't want to leave that early....tough shit. Either go or be responsible for your own ass. However, if you are caught evacuating out of turn, then a hefty fine would be in order I think.

But people, being what they are, are pretty stupid.

BTW...the mayor is right. It is far too late to call for evacuations at this date. The best they can hope for is to get as many people to safety as they can.

 

[HenryBHough]

Do you get pissed off at snakes for slithering?
Are you offended by fish for swimming?
If not then you have no right to be upset over a Democrat mayor from doing their thing.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

The problem is the majority of people leave at the same time.
They hedge their bets and bail at the last minute making the whole thing a cluster fuck.
We actually went up to I-10 to see how bad it was. Cars sat in the same place for hours. The parking lots lining the freeways were full of people who knew they were going to run out of gas and there was nowhere to get any.
It was a total disaster.

You'd almost think that they would have something to deal with that. You know, I think they call it a plan or something like that.

Say, if a big ass mother effin storm is heading your way and will be there in...oh I don't know....say five days, why you could divvy up the area into five separate sections and then move them out in 20% increments, or something like that. Those who stay behind or don't want to leave that early....tough shit. Either go or be responsible for your own ass. However, if you are caught evacuating out of turn, then a hefty fine would be in order I think.

But people, being what they are, are pretty stupid.

BTW...the mayor is right. It is far too late to call for evacuations at this date. The best they can hope for is to get as many people to safety as they can.

Dude....I'm not going to argue about it.
I watched it happen in real time,It played out just as I said it did.
It was a total clusterfuck!!!
Those in low lying areas should have been smart enough to leave on their own.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

The problem is the majority of people leave at the same time.
They hedge their bets and bail at the last minute making the whole thing a cluster fuck.
We actually went up to I-10 to see how bad it was. Cars sat in the same place for hours. The parking lots lining the freeways were full of people who knew they were going to run out of gas and there was nowhere to get any.
It was a total disaster.

You'd almost think that they would have something to deal with that. You know, I think they call it a plan or something like that.

Say, if a big ass mother effin storm is heading your way and will be there in...oh I don't know....say five days, why you could divvy up the area into five separate sections and then move them out in 20% increments, or something like that. Those who stay behind or don't want to leave that early....tough shit. Either go or be responsible for your own ass. However, if you are caught evacuating out of turn, then a hefty fine would be in order I think.

But people, being what they are, are pretty stupid.

BTW...the mayor is right. It is far too late to call for evacuations at this date. The best they can hope for is to get as many people to safety as they can.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

As much as I hate to agree with my dem mayor he's right.
Those of us who remember Rita know it's a bad idea to try and evac millions of people.

My exit from New Orleans even on contraflowed freeways took seven hours, crawling at 2-3 miles an hour.

That was the next example of dysfunctional NOLA government I was going to cite.
A photo in the W Post from the day before Katrina hit showed the outbound lanes of I-10 looking like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the inbound lanes were vacant with the exception of one emergency vehicle. Anyone with sense would have designated all but one of the inbound lanes for outbound traffic to handle the overflow.

They were so designated. I drove the whole thing. THAT'S WHAT I JUST GOT DONE DESCRIBING.



And furthermore that was the state's operation. The city doesn't have the authority to contraflow I-10 outside its boundaries.

Again Hunior, don't you dare try to snow me. I lived it.

Really??
....

when was that picture taken?

The picture I initially referred to was in the Washington Post and was taken on the day before the hurricane hit and the photo was actually of traffic stalled on the lake bridge. Not several miles away but right on the bridge.

 

[Pogo]

My exit from New Orleans even on contraflowed freeways took seven hours, crawling at 2-3 miles an hour.

That was the next example of dysfunctional NOLA government I was going to cite.
A photo in the W Post from the day before Katrina hit showed the outbound lanes of I-10 looking like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the inbound lanes were vacant with the exception of one emergency vehicle. Anyone with sense would have designated all but one of the inbound lanes for outbound traffic to handle the overflow.

They were so designated. I drove the whole thing. THAT'S WHAT I JUST GOT DONE DESCRIBING.



And furthermore that was the state's operation. The city doesn't have the authority to contraflow I-10 outside its boundaries.

Again Hunior, don't you dare try to snow me. I lived it.

Really??
....

when was that picture taken?

The picture I initially referred to was in the Washington Post and was taken on the day before the hurricane hit and the photo was actually of traffic stalled on the lake bridge. Not several miles away but right on the bridge.

BULLSHIT.

Number one that is absolutely NOT the Lake bridge at all. It's right in the middle of town where Mid City meets Carrollton. I used to live in BOTH of those areas and I know exactly where Exit 232 is. Number two, I-10 West absolutely does NOT feed that bridge; the Causeway bridge is accessed by Causeway Boulevard, and it's to the NORTH, not the west. Both the airport and the city of Baton Rouge are to the WEST. The Causeway Bridge goes NORTH.

Furthermore it begins at the south end in Metairie, not in New Orleans. From the point pictured you would have to drive four more miles west just to get to Causeway Boulevard -- let alone the bridge. The bridge entrance is unrelated to either I-10 or US 61 --- it has no route number at all.

HERE is where your pic is taken -- just to the left of the label "Mid City" --- and the green line on top is the bridge, and the dotted line to the left of the bridge is the Parish line where New Orleans ends and Metairie begins:

And here is what the bridge entrance --- on Causeway Boulevard in Metairie Louisiana --- actually looks like

​

And again I've been through that entrance more times than I can count, and I know EXACTLY where it is and is not.

And number three that is absolutely not taken on Sunday 8/28. I can see by the shadows that it's shot in the late morning. Well, the late morning of Sunday 8/28 is exactly when I was on the road evacuating and it was in no way a clear day as pictured here. It was ominously dark and overcast from dawn. Too dark to cast shadows.

What you have here is a picture of a New Orleans interchange split in the middle of town. It may be a pic of a hurricane evacuation considering the dearth of incoming traffic -- possibly Saturday 8/27 which was sunny --- but it's absolutely not the Lake bridge entrance and it's absolutely not Sunday 8/28 and for all we know it may not even be during Katrina at all. And from the little amount of traffic veering off to Tulane Highway, which is an alternate route to go west out of the city, I'm not even convinced it's taken at a crucial point of whatever event it is since Tulane (61) is an alternate parallel route to get around the freeway jam. Locals do exactly that on a daily basis even for everyday rush hours.

This could even be a picture taken on some random day when some massive accident on the eastbound lanes shut down traffic, accounting for the dearth of traffic in that direction. The parking lot on I-10 west as pictured here occurs literally every weekday.

Again, every time you try to float bullshit turds on this thread I'm gonna pull the chain and send it where it belongs.

 

[Pogo]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

The problem is the majority of people leave at the same time.
They hedge their bets and bail at the last minute making the whole thing a cluster fuck.
We actually went up to I-10 to see how bad it was. Cars sat in the same place for hours. The parking lots lining the freeways were full of people who knew they were going to run out of gas and there was nowhere to get any.
It was a total disaster.

You'd almost think that they would have something to deal with that. You know, I think they call it a plan or something like that.

Say, if a big ass mother effin storm is heading your way and will be there in...oh I don't know....say five days, why you could divvy up the area into five separate sections and then move them out in 20% increments, or something like that. Those who stay behind or don't want to leave that early....tough shit. Either go or be responsible for your own ass. However, if you are caught evacuating out of turn, then a hefty fine would be in order I think.

But people, being what they are, are pretty stupid.

BTW...the mayor is right. It is far too late to call for evacuations at this date. The best they can hope for is to get as many people to safety as they can.

The thing about a hurricane coming, or maybe could-be coming if a ton of variables go a certain specific way, through the Gulf is that five days out it's impossible to predict where it will land accurately. So if you were in, say, New Orleans twelve years and five days ago and were following the RoshawnMarkwees dipshit-revisionist history and had unsubstantiated reason to think it was coming to New Orleans, and elected to evacuate to, say, Waveland Mississippi, you would have been wiped off the map because that's where she headed.

Of course, five days before the event when Farkwheeze's revisionist history claims New Orleans was a known target, Katrina wasn't even a hurricane yet, had only just acquired "Tropical Storm" status and hadn't even hit Florida yet. It may have been expected in Florida but five days in hurricane prediction is an eternity. As can be seen in the link below, the long-range prediction of the Katrina path "in four or five days" was the Florida Panhandle, three states east of New Orleans. So this cockamamie mindless revisionist history of predictions five days out is absolute bullshit, and documentedly so.

Meteorological History of Hurricane Katrina

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

You are correct. I was watching Rita evacuation and it was a Disaster and if I remember Bill White was Mayor.

Turner is not perfect but a hell of a lot better than Parker...

Annise was a train wreck!
The city council and the gov in Houston has a nice balance where things dont get to crazy either way.

People keep on comparing this to Katrina without understanding the Houston Region.

1. Houston is not a bowel and once the rain stops the water will flow right on out.

2. This Hurricane is the worst ever to hit Texas and make Katrina look like a Tropical Storm.

3. Turner, Emmett and Abbott will do the right thing. Had people gotten stuck on 10 going West or 45 going North then people will scream they messed up and killed people.

So this is a damn if you do damn if you don't scenario...

Imagine if N.O. got the rainfall we did with Harvey....

"If you look at the observed precipitation maps for both Rita and Katrina, the total rainfall range is between 10 and 12 inches for both storms. Looking at AHPS for rainfall estimates, Hurricane Rita dropped more rain over the Lake Charles area than Katrina did over New Orleans.

Looking at the storm total radar images from IDV, it seemed that Rita dropped more rain in total (because of the lighter blue areas), however, the scale for Rita only goes from 0-15 inches, whereas for Katrina the scale goes from 0-24 inches. Taking these into account, it seems that both hurricanes dropped about the same amount of rain in total.

Looking at the precipitable water maps, Hurricane Katrina definitely had more moisture than Rita, but looking at the storm totals from NWS, the Lake Charles area received about 2 inches of rain more than Katrina.

Overall, after looking at all the radar images and rain gauge data, it seems that both hurricanes dropped about the same amount of rain, but Rita might have dropped a little bit more because the data seems to fit better for Rita. That being said, Katrina was definitely the more powerful and devastating hurricane because the levees broke and caused even more extensive damage."

N.O. would no longer be habitable.

I believe no one knows how strong Harvey was or the actual amount of rain that has fallen!

You, I and the people in this region know. People make comments about what is going on but they have no clue!!

The damage and danger is real. The rain has not stopped!!!

Just stay safe and know when this is over Texans will show how we do it!

I give it six months and you'd never know we just got hammered by record breaking rain.

Katy is finally starting to get the dry side.
Things should start getting better as far as Barker and Addicks reservoir goes.
We'll still have some residual runoff but it should start slowing.

Water is going down. Those on the Brazos and Colorado will be in danger for awhile.

FYI:

FM 2218 is open, 36 from the 2218 to Needville is open. Spur 10 (not the interstate ) from 36 to 59 is open.

Needville store is open along with Dollar General in Pleak Village but Needville Dollar General is close.

Did not check the Truck Stops going south on 59 heading to El Campo.

Hope this helps and be safe...

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

Well the first report was it was going to be a strong tropical storm or cat 1 hurricane. On Wednesday it change to a strong cat 2 weak cat 3.

Hours before landfall they knew it was going to be a cat 4.

Also they first thought it would go South of Brownsville, then South of Corpus, and it hit Rockport which is North East of Corpus.

So let me tell you no one knew where it was going, so getting on the road and guessing which way to go could get you kill!

Also we learn from Rita that a massive evacuation is impossible when you are dealing with the amount of people in the region.

Do the math and from Copus to Beaumont you have more people than some States and you want to evac them to where?

FEMA camps?

Also the Rita evacuation almost 200 people were killed, so how many would have died during Harvey because they were stuck on roads!?!

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Hundreds or thousands would have died on the highways had they ordered millions to leave. Not only that but where do you send 5 million people.

And where does personal responsibility for ones own safety come into play?

 

[mudwhistle]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Hundreds or thousands would have died on the highways had they ordered millions to leave. Not only that but where do you send 5 million people.

And where does personal responsibility for ones own safety come into play?

Good question.

But
Hundreds or thousands??

 

[ph3iron]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Might help if you knew the difference between a noun and an adjective
Trumpie, white high school ed maybe boy?

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Hundreds or thousands would have died on the highways had they ordered millions to leave. Not only that but where do you send 5 million people.

And where does personal responsibility for ones own safety come into play?

Good question.

But
Hundreds or thousands??

Yes hundreds or thousands. Just like the ones that died trying to evacuate from Rita.

You need to stop being a partisan dick and get a clue

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Hundreds or thousands would have died on the highways had they ordered millions to leave. Not only that but where do you send 5 million people.

And where does personal responsibility for ones own safety come into play?

Good question.

But
Hundreds or thousands??

Yes hundreds or thousands. Just like the ones that died trying to evacuate from Rita.

You need to stop being a partisan dick and get a clue

Less than two hundred died during the Rita evacuation.

I do not believe hundred of thousands would have died but it would have been dangerous.

 

[Peach]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
View attachment 146477

I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

Well the first report was it was going to be a strong tropical storm or cat 1 hurricane. On Wednesday it change to a strong cat 2 weak cat 3.

Hours before landfall they knew it was going to be a cat 4.

Also they first thought it would go South of Brownsville, then South of Corpus, and it hit Rockport which is North East of Corpus.

So let me tell you no one knew where it was going, so getting on the road and guessing which way to go could get you kill!

Also we learn from Rita that a massive evacuation is impossible when you are dealing with the amount of people in the region.

Do the math and from Copus to Beaumont you have more people than some States and you want to evac them to where?

FEMA camps?

Also the Rita evacuation almost 200 people were killed, so how many would have died during Harvey because they were stuck on roads!?!

I posted a new thread, only 57 hours between tropical depression and Category 4. Not enough time to evacuate the city.

 

[Pogo]

That was the next example of dysfunctional NOLA government I was going to cite.
A photo in the W Post from the day before Katrina hit showed the outbound lanes of I-10 looking like a parking lot. Meanwhile, the inbound lanes were vacant with the exception of one emergency vehicle. Anyone with sense would have designated all but one of the inbound lanes for outbound traffic to handle the overflow.

They were so designated. I drove the whole thing. THAT'S WHAT I JUST GOT DONE DESCRIBING.



And furthermore that was the state's operation. The city doesn't have the authority to contraflow I-10 outside its boundaries.

Again Hunior, don't you dare try to snow me. I lived it.

Really??
....

when was that picture taken?

The picture I initially referred to was in the Washington Post and was taken on the day before the hurricane hit and the photo was actually of traffic stalled on the lake bridge. Not several miles away but right on the bridge.

BULLSHIT.

Number one that is absolutely NOT the Lake bridge at all. It's right in the middle of town where Mid City meets Carrollton. I used to live in BOTH of those areas and I know exactly where Exit 232 is. Number two, I-10 West absolutely does NOT feed that bridge; the Causeway bridge is accessed by Causeway Boulevard, and it's to the NORTH, not the west. Both the airport and the city of Baton Rouge are to the WEST. The Causeway Bridge goes NORTH.

Furthermore it begins at the south end in Metairie, not in New Orleans. From the point pictured you would have to drive four more miles west just to get to Causeway Boulevard -- let alone the bridge. The bridge entrance is unrelated to either I-10 or US 61 --- it has no route number at all.

HERE is where your pic is taken -- just to the left of the label "Mid City" --- and the green line on top is the bridge, and the dotted line to the left of the bridge is the Parish line where New Orleans ends and Metairie begins:

And here is what the bridge entrance --- on Causeway Boulevard in Metairie Louisiana --- actually looks like

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And again I've been through that entrance more times than I can count, and I know EXACTLY where it is and is not.

And number three that is absolutely not taken on Sunday 8/28. I can see by the shadows that it's shot in the late morning. Well, the late morning of Sunday 8/28 is exactly when I was on the road evacuating and it was in no way a clear day as pictured here. It was ominously dark and overcast from dawn. Too dark to cast shadows.

What you have here is a picture of a New Orleans interchange split in the middle of town. It may be a pic of a hurricane evacuation considering the dearth of incoming traffic -- possibly Saturday 8/27 which was sunny --- but it's absolutely not the Lake bridge entrance and it's absolutely not Sunday 8/28 and for all we know it may not even be during Katrina at all. And from the little amount of traffic veering off to Tulane Highway, which is an alternate route to go west out of the city, I'm not even convinced it's taken at a crucial point of whatever event it is since Tulane (61) is an alternate parallel route to get around the freeway jam. Locals do exactly that on a daily basis even for everyday rush hours.

This could even be a picture taken on some random day when some massive accident on the eastbound lanes shut down traffic, accounting for the dearth of traffic in that direction. The parking lot on I-10 west as pictured here occurs literally every weekday.

Again, every time you try to float bullshit turds on this thread I'm gonna pull the chain and send it where it belongs.

Here in fact is video shot ON Sunday 8/28/05, which is the day I evacuated New Orleans, shot from a closed overpass looking at I-10 at Williams Boulevard. This is exactly what I was driving in. How inconvenient that it clearly shows both eastbound and westbound lanes carrying traffic WEST in the same direction.

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Which makes you, RoshawnMarkwees -- a liar. Notice also the sky, completely overcast exactly as I described, which makes your dating of the phony bridge photo absolute bullshit.

 

[mudwhistle]

Once again a Democrat Mayor refused to do what the President (and the Governor of Texas) warned him to do and is causing the deaths of people in his town. I think Democrats want to see death and destruction so they can blame it on whites.

Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order

Houston mayor: No regrets about not evacuating - CNN Video

Might help if you knew the difference between a noun and an adjective
Trumpie, white high school ed maybe boy?

An adjective describes nouns and pronouns.

Example: The Yellow Sun.

Yellow is an adjective
Sun is a noun.

And I have about 120 college credits, dickwad.

 

[Bruce_T_Laney]

This was the problem with evacing Houston.
Notice the abandoned cars on the side of the road that ran out of gas?
Those were the lucky ones...the one's that got truly fucked were the ones that ran out of gas between Houston and San Antonio out in the boonies where there was no help available when the storm made landfall.
All you're doing is hanging yourself out to dry ...
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I do have a question.

Is this what the interstate in Houston looks like in normal times? When was this photo taken?

If you'll notice both sides of the freeway are heading in the same direction.
The photo was taken during the Rita evac attempt.

So, normally, the traffic flow is the same as any large metropolitan area.

I'm thinking that three days before Harvey hit Texas, that same highway would have been no more congested than any other day. That means, that if I lived there and was told that a major hurricane was going to hit nearby and drop huge amounts of water on the area, an area known for flooding, then I would have had zero problems making it to San Antonio.

Well the first report was it was going to be a strong tropical storm or cat 1 hurricane. On Wednesday it change to a strong cat 2 weak cat 3.

Hours before landfall they knew it was going to be a cat 4.

Also they first thought it would go South of Brownsville, then South of Corpus, and it hit Rockport which is North East of Corpus.

So let me tell you no one knew where it was going, so getting on the road and guessing which way to go could get you kill!

Also we learn from Rita that a massive evacuation is impossible when you are dealing with the amount of people in the region.

Do the math and from Copus to Beaumont you have more people than some States and you want to evac them to where?

FEMA camps?

Also the Rita evacuation almost 200 people were killed, so how many would have died during Harvey because they were stuck on roads!?!

I posted a new thread, only 57 hours between tropical depression and Category 4. Not enough time to evacuate the city.

Just not the city but the entire region. I have a funny feeling no one knows how many people live between Corpus to Beaumont and to evacuate that amount of people would have been impossible...