I am in Houston

[Warpy]

8. Individuals were unprepared

because they didn't know how to read the landscape and didn't realize it was prone to floods because it looked like every suburb they've ever seen, or they know how to read the landscape but trusted that the house had been there so long that flooding wouldn't happen, or they just thought "it can't happen here." This is who we are and why every flood has people who need to be taken out of houses where the water is rising fast.

At least houses generally have places you can go up, like out windows and onto roofs. If they'd been stuck in their cars trying to get down those flooded highways with nowhere to go but a car roof, the death toll would have been very high. I've visited the Texas DOT site to see the main road cosures, and most of the routes going north and west are flooded out and closed. South is where the storm itself hit, so it's out of the question.

The mayor made the right call. The press needs to stop taking its marching orders from nitwit Republicans from outside the area.