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Article snippet: HOUSTON — Phyllis Ullman, 73, had been evacuated from her flooded neighborhood Monday morning, and was visibly shaken as she sat in the back seat of a rescuer’s pickup truck speeding through the spitting rain. You can’t argue with Mother Nature, but she had strong words for Mayor Sylvester Turner’s decision not to issue a mandatory evacuation order for Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city. “We would have been upset and come home to find damage at our house, but it would have been probably easier on people,” she said, adding: “He should have done it by zones.” Not so, said the volunteer rescuer who had come for her. “You can’t evacuate five million people,” said Kyle Gajewsky, 59, from behind the wheel. “You would have to start two weeks before this happened.” As residents continued to be plucked from roofs and rescued from flooded streets on Monday, it became increasingly evident that Mr. Turner’s decision not to order a mandatory evacuation in the face of Hurricane Harvey was the most significant move of his first 20 months in office, and perhaps his long political career. Though criticized from afar, the decision was praised by many Houston officials and residents who remember the disaster that unfolded before Hurricane Rita in October 2015, when local officials called an evacuation that put 3.7 million people in sweltering, hourslong traffic jams that resulted in more than 100 deaths. The decision not to evacuate Houston this time has played out at a time... Link to the full article to read more