'Get up, and let's get going,' Houston mayor says
HOUSTON –– Storm-tossed Texans pressed ahead Sunday with door-to-door searches for frail and elderly survivors, and accelerated an exodus from evacuation centers where some had sheltered in the wake of the most powerful hurricane to strike the continental U.S. in more than a decade.
As tens of thousands in Houston and its environs spent the Labor Day holiday weekend cleaning out homes from which storm Harvey's waters had receded, the city's mayor exhorted his constituents to move ahead as quickly as possible toward some semblance of normal in the nation's fourth-largest city.
"I'm encouraging people: 'Get up, and let's get going,'" Mayor Sylvester Turner said on NBC's "Meet the Press."
Looking ahead to the Tuesday start of the workweek, Turner exhorted businesses: "Most of the city
