Joint Task Force Katrina Commander Russel Honore on Thursday continued his attacks on the Trump administration's response to the Harvey devastation, calling for high-risk evacuations because many areas have lost power and clean drinking water.
"If the power grid goes down like it did in Beaumont [Thursday], we will go to a mega-disaster here in Dallas," Honore, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant general, told Erin Burnett on CNN.
"If they can't get water and if you lose power — it is 93 degrees today — we need to start looking at the selected evacuation of high-risk people currently in the flood zone.
"If there are nursing homes and hospitals, they're at risk.
"It is a function of time before more of the grid goes down — and that should be highest priority of all of government, to start doing high-risk evacuations now.
"You need to move them, because if the grid go down, we're going to have a mess."
Honore also called for more federal troops into key communities and for deploying more National Guard personnel in rural areas.
"We have to push the National Guard out to the rural areas and get the big troops in to help fix the infrastructure and to continue to search and rescue," he told Burnett. "I do think we need to scale up.
"We don't have enough troops here — and we don't have enough on the way."
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