whether there should have been a mandatory evacuation or not and a lot of people look back to 2005 during hurricane rita and they say it actually was worse, because it caused enormous traffic jams, people died, actually. what happened? give us some perspective about the history of houston that went into the making of the decision this time, not to have those evacuations days ago. reporter: i mean, i think the controversy started when governor greg abbott suggested that people should have evacuated, and, of course, local officials said, whoa, you know, we weren t going to move millions of people before an event like this. and, you know, i don t think there s really precedent for evacuating people before a rain storm. ahead of a hirurricane, certain. but harvey was never projected to hit houston head-on ever. and up until saturday night, we