I posted something about this and just linked a yahoo news story and it was pointed out to me that that was more a comment than a diary entry. So here is my diary entry.
Harris county (just Harris county) is about the size of Rhode Island. Now it is mostly a big swamp. And it is flat — drainage couldn’t be worse. And if we don’t somehow get that water back into the gulf really soon than real carnage could just be starting.
I’d remember this — the slurry of diseases in that water will get much worse when the temperatures rise — I think of it as “miracle grow for the nastys”. All the sewage is in that water now — and worse.
The very idea to me that people could just be moved to shelter in the city is incredibly stupid . False security — say your house survived all the storms, just say — do you also survive being surrounded that swamp of disease coming your way?
There is only one solution — get the people out of the city until the water and the nastys are gone.
Why for god’s sake aren’t they mobilizing out of Hood and Polk yet? Why? They could at least make one hell of a dent in this problem.