Re: OT: Your tax dollars at work

On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:09:45 -0500, Bob Mann <wiley48@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Sun, 4 Sep 2005 11:08:10 -0500, "Lorem Ipsum" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>
>>People were asked to evacuate. For the most part, I am sure that most who
>>could, did evacuate.
>
>Most who "could" being operative. Most in the worst predicament appear
>to have been unable to evacuate for one reason or another.

Most people that live in an area about to be hit by a hurricane won't
leave unless they are forced to do so. I was born and raised in
Clearwater, FL, just a few miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico. I
didn't leave the state till I was 20. While I was growing up I
remember a lot of hurricanes that hit the state yet my parents never
once packed us up to take us to a shelter. No one else in the
neighborhood did either. We all stayed put. Now my sister lives just
north of Ft. Lauderdale real close to the ocean. Outside the back of
their house is a canal that goes out to the sea. She would have been
in Katrina's path had the storm not shifted south at the last second.
She too has never left her home during a hurricane, even after all the
storms that hit Florida last year. During all these storms money to
leave town was never an issue. We could have easily gone somewhere if
we wanted to but never did. I have only evacuated from my home due to
a hurricane twice in my life. Both were only because the Air Force
made us leave by kicking everyone out of housing. Once was from
Patrick AFB in Melbourne, FL, back in 1996 when a hurricane was coming
at the base. The second time was when Isabel hit the SE corner of
Virginia 2 years ago. While I would have left for the one that was
aiming for Patrick (it's on nothing but a big sandbar along the coast)
I wouldn't have left for Isabel if it wasn't for the Air Force making
us leave.

So based on what I have seen from past hurricanes I would lay odds
that most of the people that stayed would have stayed anyhow even if
they had a way to leave.

Ruppster
sportster at dodge-semis dot com

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