Alberto Monteiro wrote: > Dave Land wrote: >> >> These are leaders who defined national security in terms of 9/11. >> The >> question is whether we will insist that the blighters we put in >> their >> places can think in terms of 8/29, too. >> > I feel sorry for the victims, but wasn´t here an alarm, calling > for evacuation from the city _3 days_ before Katrina hit? > > In my last Web Search, I even found a blog claiming to give > Darwin Awards to those that remained there. >
The Saturday morning before the storm on WWL-AM I heard the Mayor and the Governor pleading with people to leave and the radio personalities did the same. Those who did not leave were either too poor to be able too or felt that they were secure where they were otherwise. I can sympathise with those who stayed. I've been through 7 - 10 hurricanes (depending on how you count) and the only time I evacuated was for a false alarm. I've stood outside in the eye of at least 3 cat 3 storms. (A storm in 60 or 61, Carla, and Alicia) In all that my family has perhaps lost a few shingles from all those storms combined. Although the storms were sometimes hairy and scarey it is very easy to become overconfident. No matter what a storm is rated as it approaches you never know if it is going to be *The* bad one. Most of you watching TV probably get the idea that it is expected for you to evacuate, but the whole mass evacuation idea generally only applies to the first few miles inland (in terms of the common wisdom). People 20 miles inland just don't evacuate. (But then 20 miles inland, you may not bear the full brunt of a storms force. It one of those things that depends on a lot of factors) When you look at New Orleans, it is far enough inland that a lot of people feel confident they can weather the storm. My feeling is that at cat 4 or 5 you need to be 100 miles inland at minimum and it needs to be dry land preferably with lots of trees.........and hills if you can find them. Where I live now is on the complex of bays behind Galveston Island (Google or Yahoo map NASAs Johnson Space Center. I'm right between the front gate and Clear Lake.... a bit closer to the lake actually) I would likely evacuate for a cat 3. But I would feel perfectly safe at 45 South and 610 if the storm were a cat 3 or 4. xponent Storm Diaries Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
