Instapundit: Houston's Ray Nagin

Please think twice before trying to leave Houston en masse. No evacuation orders have been issued for the city. #Harvey

— Sylvester Turner (@SylvesterTurner) August 25, 2017

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What some people defending the Mayor of Houston have to say...

There's a huge difference between evacuating a city like Houston (2.4 Million) and Corpus Christi (326K).

— Kam Franklin (@KamFranklin) August 27, 2017

Brian Williams' comments about dead bodies, Hurricane Katrina draw scrutiny

"Williams’ account of seeing a body float by in the French Quarter — which remained largely dry — and even a claim of catching dysentery from drinking Katrina floodwaters have raised eyebrows among bloggers and elsewhere since he took it on the chin this week over a claim that he rode in a helicopter that was downed by a rocket-propelled grenade in Iraq."

“I was instead in a following aircraft. We all landed after the ground fire incident and spent two harrowing nights in a sandstorm in the Iraq desert,” Williams said Wednesday. He painted his earlier description as a “bungled attempt” to thank an Iraq War veteran...

Last year, in an interview with Tom Brokaw, the man he replaced in the anchor chair at NBC, Williams said:

“My week, two weeks there was not helped by the fact that I accidentally ingested some of the floodwater. I became very sick with dysentery, our hotel was overrun with gangs, I was rescued in the stairwell of a five-star hotel in New Orleans by a young police officer. We are friends to this day. And uh, it just was uh, I look back at total agony.”

But the French Quarter, the original high ground of New Orleans, was not impacted by the floodwaters that overwhelmed the vast majority of the city.