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                                <p dir="ltr"><span>Murky, brown water gushed down streets, rising multiple feet in elevation and making travel impossible. While the sight of the roads is a fright, a far more formidable view is of the buildings. Nothing can escape the wrath of the floodwaters in Houston, Texas.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>One of these inundated structures was a</span> <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-nursing-home-residents-evacuated-harvey-flood-waters/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">nursing home</span></a><span>. In the La Vita Bella living facility, 18 people, including 15 senior citizens, were waist deep in floodwater. Thankfully, the residents were eventually evacuated.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>Seeing the viral image of these residents nearly brought me to tears. It tugged on my heartstrings. I could only imagine those people as my own grandparents. They each have their own families whom they care dearly about and look forward to seeing again.</span></p>
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<div id="tncms-region-article_instory_top" class="tncms-region hidden-print"></div><p dir="ltr"><span>The flooded nursing home was a tragedy barely avoided in Hurricane Harvey’s reign of terror. More potential tragedies like this have been thwarted thanks to precautions taken, especially the decision not to evacuate the city of Houston. After learning from 2005’s disastrous Hurricane Rita, officials made the right call in ordering for citizens to stay and refrain from evacuation.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>More than</span> <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Hurricane-Rita-anxiety-leads-to-hellish-fatal-6521994.php" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">100 people</span></a> <span>died and $12 billion worth of property was destroyed in the wake of Rita’s rampage through the Lone Star State. Presumed to be a Category 5 storm, the hurricane dwindled down to a Category 3 cell before hitting East Texas shores.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>What caused so many deaths?</span> <a href="http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Hurricane-Rita-anxiety-leads-to-hellish-fatal-6521994.php" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">About 2.5 million people</span></a> <span>hit the roads to avoid the storm. It was a rush hour from hell, with drivers waiting in desperation for over 20 hours. Heat stroke injured or killed riders, fights broke out and a nursing home bus went up in flames,</span> <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/23/bus.fire/" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">killing 24</span></a> <span>people.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>If evacuation calls were made for Hurricane Harvey, the residents at La Vita Bella could have suffered the same fate. Instead of wading in waist-deep water before rescue, they could have been trapped in a flaming bus with no hope of rescue.  </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>The evacuation created widespread panic for millions. It’s easy to see how tightly wound emotions and fears would cause tempers to boil over and brawls to occur. One could only fathom how the drivers and passengers felt, trapped in an unending line of traffic, knowing that a deadly storm was approaching. Twenty hours is simply too long for a car to wait, lacking enough gas to make the trek. These</span> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/world/americas/hurricane-rita-upgraded-to-category-5.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">stalled vehicles</span></a> <span>were another risk that endangered people.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>Another danger to evacuation is the possibility of vehicles flooding and passengers drowning. From 1995-2010,</span> <a href="https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/flash-flooding-vehicle-danger-20140717" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">nearly two-thirds of flash flood deaths</span></a> <span>have resulted from being trapped in vehicles. Each year from 2004-13, U.S. flash floods have taken an average of</span> <a href="https://weather.com/safety/floods/news/flash-flooding-vehicle-danger-20140717" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">75 lives</span></a><span>. If Houston had chosen to evacuate, this is a problem that would have been faced. In a collective rush of panic, people could have gotten into their vehicles, hit the gas and put themselves in danger.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>City and county officials were</span> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2017/08/27/harvey-is-causing-epic-catastrophic-flooding-in-houston-why-wasnt-the-city-evacuated/?utm_term=.3e20d2134ff2" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">almost unanimous in their decision</span></a> <span>against evacuation. Gov. Greg Abbott suggested even without a mandatory evacuation order, residents should still evacuate before the storm. In contrast, local officials told the residents to stay in shelter and remain calm. Francisco Sanchez, spokesman for the Harris County Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, implored residents take the advice of local officials over the governor.</span></p>
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<div id="tncms-region-article_instory_middle" class="tncms-region hidden-print"></div><p dir="ltr"><span>The local officials, including Sanchez, made the right call on some important decisions for Houston residents. They did a good job responding promptly to Abbott’s suggestion for evacuation. If people started to evacuate immediately because of his announcement, there would have been more chaos. In dangerous situations, such as an impending hurricane, it is essential for all officials in command to provide quick, helpful information to residents and to give unanimous orders without ambiguity.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>No matter what precautions are taken, damage is still sure to follow in a natural disaster of that scale.</span> <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/08/29/hurricane-harvey-stars-react-donate-money-in-support-relief-efforts.html" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Celebrities, including Kevin Hart, the Kardashian family and Chris Young,</span></a> <span>made donations to assist Houston and all other parts of Texas affected by the storm. Beyoncé, who lived in Houston, said she will be working with her charity to help, too.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>While we may not be able to make as generous of donations as celebrities, we can still make a difference. Donations to organizations such as the</span> <a href="https://www.redcross.org/donate/disaster-relief?scode=RSG00000E017&amp;utm_source=bing&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=AlwaysOn%7CBrand%7CFDR&amp;utm_term=%2Bred%20%2Bcross%20%2Bdonation&amp;utm_content=American%20Red%20Cross%20Donations&amp;gclid=CIGq98rc-9UCFQ2DMgodaWwCcQ&amp;gclsrc=ds&amp;dclid=CKnxgsvc-9UCFQdxAQod8REBhA" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Red Cross</span></a> <span>don’t have to be large, but the more donations, the larger the total and the larger the difference we collectively make.  </span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>Natural disasters cannot be prevented, but precautions can be made to lessen the number of injuries and deaths. Local officials in Harris County made the right call in choosing not to evacuate the area. While casualties inevitably occurred, there would have been far more if residents attempted to all flee at the same time in a flurry of panic and disorder.</span></p><p dir="ltr"><span>History taught society to learn from past mistakes. Harris County officials remembered the consequences of Hurricane Rita’s mass evacuation, and rightly chose to keep both young and old sheltered and calm during Hurricane Harvey.</span></p><p><span><span>Alli Lorensen is a junior journalism major. Reach her at</span> <a href="mailto:opinion@dailynebraskan.com" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">opinion@dailynebraskan.com</span></a> <span>or via</span> <a href="https://twitter.com/dnopinion" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">@DNOpinion</span></a><span>.</span></span></p>
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