Tulane University in New Orleans began evacuating students to Houston early Tuesday after Hurricane Ida left much of southern Louisiana battered and without power.
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Tulane received backlash on Twitter after claiming the storm made a sudden, unpredicted turn toward the Big Easy. Of course, forecast models from the National Hurricane Center predicted the storm’s path accurately, even from as far as 72 hours out.
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Unprompted lying is just so infuriating. Tulane University got on the internet — where everybody could see them — and said Hurricane Ida deviated from the forecast track too late to order any evacuations.
That storm went right where forecasters said it would. It’s one of the most accurate storm tracks I have ever seen in my life. They made sure to send their football players out to Birmingham well ahead of the storm, because the money is in football and they wanted to make sure the players would be able to play this weekend. For everybody else, they just crossed their fingers. And they should just say so.
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