Sylvester Turner Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Hurricane Harvey=== In the aftermath of [[Hurricane Harvey]], Mayor Turner received criticism for his decision not to suggest any form of evacuation. He responded to the criticism by pointing out the logistics of evacuating "6.5 million" people and the deaths and traffic that occurred during the 2005 [[Hurricane Rita]] evacuation. Critics have replied stating that 6.5 million people did not have to be evacuated but instead tens of thousands could have been evacuated who were in flood zones or individuals who were most at risk during emergencies could have been evacuated.<ref>{{cite news |title=Texas Governor, Mayor Split Over Whether Houston Needed Evacuations |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-governor-mayor-split-over-if-houston-needed-evacuations-1503880263 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=August 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Why was Houston not evacuated before Hurricane Harvey? |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41085438 |publisher=BBC News |date=August 29, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Houston mayor defends decision not to issue evacuation order |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/houston-mayor-defends-decision-issue-evacuation-order/story?id=49453471 |publisher=ABC News |date=August 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/0af7c31e67ab439b9f23f892d013d418|title=Questions swirl around Houston mayor's evacuation decision|date=August 30, 2017|website=AP NEWS}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page