re: #265 lawhawk

I’m seeing people complaining why Houston wasn’t evacuated and that the death toll there should be on the local officials.

Where were they supposed to evacuate to? A city/region with several million residents are supposed to go where? San Antonio? They’re hit with massive flooding too? Texas Hill Country that lacks the resources? Going west to El Paso? Into Mexico? None of those areas were equipped to handle those kinds of numbers either.

This is a shitstorm of epic proportions and the local authorities are ill equipped to handle it. They never would have the resources to handle it. State officials are likewise incapable of handling an event of this magnitude.

That’s why FEMA and the federal government are critical to disaster recovery/assistance. But that’s the very stuff the GOP and Trump are trying to push back to the states/local levels.

Texas is an incubator for these kinds of issues, and we’re going to see how devastating that can be.

The local authorities are so overwhelmed, that I fear a death toll that will be more than anyone should bear.

And there are whackjobs who insist its unconstitutional for the federal government to provide disaster aid.