Emergency! Emergency!
The media has managed to drum up a fearsome, hot frenzy in regard to some mysterious force threatening to kill everyone and put millions of miles of Texas under water. It is, without doubt, a bunch of crap. I don't know what the media look like in other parts of the country but down here the obvious fact is that it isn't that bad.New Orleans was a problem waiting to happen. They'd known about it for years and the whole thing was a matter of physics. When a city sits in a bowl, 6 ft below sea level, you are going to have problems. Houston does not sit in a bowl. Houston is, for all intents and purposes, not prone to flooding. Oh sure, some areas will flood and some areas will have trouble, but not the whole city. But instead of reassuring people of this fact, instead of using their heads and telling folks that things were not going to be all that bad, they wound up the tension and created issues.
People needed to leave Galveston and Corpus, no question. Live in a trailer? Get out. Live in a flood prone area? Get to higher ground. But now we have Houstonites on a 20 hour road trip to Dallas and huge issues arising because they are running out of time and it is more dangerous to be on the road in the storm than it would be to just sit at home in Houston.
I'm angry. I'm angry with the media and angry with Rick PErry (our Governor) for not being more reassuring and getting people to use common sense. Are we going to get a shload of rain? Yes. Are we going to get a shload of wind? Sure. Are roofs going to get ripped off some houses? Yeah, probably. Is Houston going to get turned on its head and flooded and destroyed? No.
Chill out people.
posted by GreSam @ 08:36
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