If the storm would have made landfall in Corpus it would have been like Katrina. We would have had mass casualties and half the city homeless. The mayor chose not to evacuate the city, and he's thumping his chest now about being correct. Over half of our city lives at or below the poverty line. Had we experienced a category 4 eyewall it would have been like Katrina in Corpus Christi.

He didn't even have a fricking shelter open. The Nueces County OEM and the school district ran busses to San Antonio, but the mayor didn't tell anyone to leave.

He needs to drive to Rockport to see what a fricking moron he was.

This post was edited on 8/27/17 at 2:36 pm

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Posted by Dr RC

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Posted on 8/28/17 at 2:11 pm to The Balinese Club

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If the storm would have made landfall in Corpus it would have been like Katrina. We would have had mass casualties and half the city homeless. The mayor chose not to evacuate the city, and he's thumping his chest now about being correct. Over half of our city lives at or below the poverty line. Had we experienced a category 4 eyewall it would have been like Katrina in Corpus Christi.

I'm assuming his reasoning is he didn't want things to end up like Rita where the roads were so gridlocked that people were dying in their cars from heat exhaustion. Also, had the roads been stuck at a standstill and the flooding come that could have potentially been a hell of a lot more people dead from drowning who were trapped on the highway.

TBH, there really is no good evacuation plan possible for down there. There are just too many people to move out.

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