Harvey Wallbanger Sitrep

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Yet so far the death toll is only 2 people in the 4th largest city in the U.S.

Bodies are not floating in the streets in the thousands and although there are some injured they are not so many that they can not be handled by the trauma centers.

Locals have responded in mass to their neighbors' needs ad the surrounding areas are moving to assist. State agencies are already in place and federal agencies were already moving to assist before the storm arrived.

This time the local officials did not refuse to speak to the president about help as happened in Katrina. Apparently the Texas officials are not afraid to have the Federal government looking into their records over how federal emergency management funds are being used.

As a side note, the authorities refused to call for a mandatory evacuation due to the results of the mandatory evac they endured 12 years ago during Katrina/Rita. More people died in Texas on the highways than in the hurricanes. Traffic was gridlocked for hundreds of miles in each direction and people sat in their vehicles for days as the hurricane struck them in the open. Pictures of those gridlocks and the people in them are still circulated as proof that the emergency evacuation of a major city is impossible.

If one compares the death tolls it appears they made the correct decision.