The Galveston County Daily News: "Doing what couldn't be done
By Ivan Arceneaux
Correspondent
Published October 3, 2005
They said evacuate. I said it couldn’t be done.
At every hurricane preparedness meeting I ever attended, the county judge and the mayor said, “Evacuate.”
I said it couldn’t be done. Galveston County residents can’t evacuate because 2 million people just 30 some miles up Interstate 45 will block the way.
Then the Texas Department of Public Safety came up with a three-pronged route plus a time-sensitive evacuation plan that looked plausible.
I said it could possibly be done. But, I wouldn’t evacuate because a guesstimated 1,500 or more elderly and special needs people would not be able to evacuate."
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