Two words for those who're flinging shade at Houston municipal officials: Hurricane Rita

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41. Evacuating major cities isn't all that easy.

And I'm not exactly an expert on this topic. But all anyone has to do is to think about rush hour traffic in your own city. And that's far from everyone.

As a side note, the one time I visited Houston some time in the late 1970's, I was astonished and appalled at how awful the traffic was. But Houston is by no means the only such city. I was recently in Portland, OR, a city I'm highly inclined to like. This trip I had occasion to notice how terrible the traffic is in the downtown area.

One good thing about hurricanes is that they give more advance warning than any other natural phenomena. But even that advance warning isn't always helpful. In this case, Harvey strengthened a great deal shortly before landfall. Had it remained a category 1, it would have been no big deal. But Cat 4? That's an entirely different hurricane.