Texas: Officials. If you are not evacuating, write your name and SS# on your arm.

[sheshe2]

So we can identify your body.

From CNN

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. He is incapable and unwilling to do anything, at all, for anybody but himself.

Either he has not decimated our ability to respond or he has.

Time will tell.

[sheshe2]

7. He will let Texas drown.

[BigmanPigman]

2. Did they give any additional useful advice, like use a Sharpie?

Oh my God, I was just watching the Weather Channel and they DID say to use a Sharpie!

[Purveyor]

6. Actually when I lived on Trinity Bay near Galveston and we had a big one churning in the

gulf, Gilbert iirc, the Chambers Country sheriff went door to door and in fact was offering the use of his sharpie for those deciding yo stay.

We bailed out however the storm went inland way south of us and could have stay. Nothing but about 2ft
of storm surge on the property. House was built on pilings 12ft up so other than debris in the yard...no harm done.

[lpbk2713]

3. It will be mayhem on roads leading away from the coast.

So many people will wait till the last moment before they decide they ought to get outta town.

[sheshe2]

4. I have been watching the pictures from the coast.

Landfall is 4 hours away and cars are already underwater. It is probably to late now to leave.

[lpbk2713]

9. Some people are in a world of crap.

If their car got flooded out while they were a good distance from home may heaven help them.

[milestogo]

5. In Galveston in 1900 people did not know what was coming.

In 2017 they can turn on the television and see exactly what is coming.

[BigmanPigman]

8. It is still the worst natural disaster in US history.

The most deaths and costliest (even in comparisons with today's adjusted amounts).

[sheshe2]

10. Yet many will stay.