Re: what's brown, insubstantial, and 100 km x 2000 m x 10 km
- From: Strabo <strabo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:37:41 -0400
David J. Hughes wrote:
strabo wrote:<snipped>(David P.) wrote:
Largest in what sense? Certainly not area, (it's only 1778 square miles, not even in the top ten in Texas) nor by population (below LA county CA, and Cook County IL)
Harris County has 3.4 to 3.6 Million, the City of Houston has about 2.2 million, but Houston sprawls across three counties (Harris, Montgomery and Fort Bend).
That 5.6 million is for the Greater Houston Metroplex, a 10 county region, (just over 10K Square miles, bigger than Israel, smaller than Belguim)) which holds, in addition to Houston, 6 more cities with populations between 50k and 150K, and roughly 40 smaller cities, towns and communities.
Hmmm, I recall that it was the largest. Never mind.
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>The population of Houston proper is far less.
Evacuations are terrible idea.
Considerations...
1 - Attempted forced evacuation leads to psychological
conditioning, guilt and a loss of personal pride and freedom.
And degrades the gene pool by keeping alive people to stupid to follow good advice.
2 - Mass evacuations are also financially very expensive and
an impossible practice.
So far, this one is going pretty smoothly. A lot was learned from the chaos of the Rita evacuation.
3 - Mass evacuations are themselves dangerous.
Life is dangerous.
4 - Why should anyone leave Houston? Except for some
low-lying areas Houston is not going to float away.
But some areas may have massive, deadly flooding. (Note: less tha 2% of the City of Houston is affected by Mandatory evacuation orders, all areas prone to major flooding. Most of the evacuations are from coastal areas 25 to 50 miles south of Houston.)
Some news outlets talk like the entire state is being evacuated.
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I've been through more than a few hurricanes. Except
for those living on barrier islands or in the 9th ward in
New Orleans evacuation is unnecessary.
I'm in Houston proper, about 15 miles west of the Downtown area.
Given my location, the structural condition of my residence, elevation, flooding and drainage history, etc., I expect to watch the eye wall pass right over me, just as Alicia did in 1983.
I'll probably lose power before dawn, and will have a sticky Saturday with no AC, but will have power back on Sunday.
I have many light sources, my batteries are charged, and I have plenty to read.
My biggest hassle it that the internet may not be easily accessible on Saturday. <G>
Piece of cake. The west end will be OK.
I lived just beyond Nieman Marcus off Westheimer and closer in
near Rice U.
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