Houston-area officials defend decision not to evacuate ahead of Harvey: 'Nonsensical thing to do'

[matt819]

35. OK

But the larger question still remains. How do you evacuate a city of 2.3 million or a metropolitan area of more than 4 million. In 36 hours.

Where do they go? Can shelters accommodate the entire population of the metropolitan area?

If you could identify specific locations and direct evacuation from those locations, you know that most of the next 48 hours would be tied up with calls from people asking if they are in the evacuation zone? There'd be greater confusion.

And this is to say nothing about what would happen to those who are not ambulatory - the elderly, children, the infirm. Are there sufficient services or public transportation to accommodate their evacuation?

How would first responders have been able to do their jobs with gridlocked highways. Gridlocked highways that were flooded. You'd have cars, trucks, and people floating along the flooded roads.

I'd like to see computer modeling of what might have happened had the decision been made to evacuation some/all of the area affected in & around Houston, starting, let's say, at 72 hours before the storm hit. Showing roads, gridlock, accommodations, affect on first responders, etc.