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Gustav is gone with minimal harm done; Hanna is likely going to Georgia or Carolina and not doing an awful lot of human damage; But Ike is on the way, and Josephine is forming farther east. .
They say a week from now, Ike will be in the Bahamas, a lot like Hanna. It may follow the same track up the east coast, probably not doing much harm. It could, however, not take the right turn, continue past the Florida Keys, out into the Gulf. Where from there? Anybody's guess, but New Orleans sits there as a nice fat target AGAIN.
Yesterday, they interviewed Chertoff and a few others, bragging up the fact that they mandatorily evacuated nearly 2 million people! The question was asked, is mandatory evacuation now going to be the policy of choice for Gulf Coast hurricanes? Chertoff and others said yes.
Well, if Ike decides to go west instead of north, and New Orleans is threatened again, the timing will be just about when these nearly 2 million evacuees get settled back in at home.
This begs several questions--the least of which, maybe, is: who's gonna pay for all that evacuating and moving back? The more pertinent question, though, is: how many of these overly promoted false alarm hurricanes have to come and go before people get fed up with the evacuating and just ignore the orders? And then, like the story of the boy who cried wolf, what if the real thing comes along?
Senator David Vitter was interview, and he told about when he was a kid and Hurricane Betsy came through--a Category 4 storm that went right up the Mississippi River--worse in a lot of ways than Katrina, nobody even thought about evacuating.
I don't know what the solution is, but if I lived there, I know I'd be getting pretty pissed off about the damned government telling me what to do and not do. There is an element of politics here--the role of government, etc., but both parties seem equally gung ho about inserting themselves into people's lives in a nice do gooder way.
What do ya'all think should be the policy of dealing with hurricane threats?
They say a week from now, Ike will be in the Bahamas, a lot like Hanna. It may follow the same track up the east coast, probably not doing much harm. It could, however, not take the right turn, continue past the Florida Keys, out into the Gulf. Where from there? Anybody's guess, but New Orleans sits there as a nice fat target AGAIN.
Yesterday, they interviewed Chertoff and a few others, bragging up the fact that they mandatorily evacuated nearly 2 million people! The question was asked, is mandatory evacuation now going to be the policy of choice for Gulf Coast hurricanes? Chertoff and others said yes.
Well, if Ike decides to go west instead of north, and New Orleans is threatened again, the timing will be just about when these nearly 2 million evacuees get settled back in at home.
This begs several questions--the least of which, maybe, is: who's gonna pay for all that evacuating and moving back? The more pertinent question, though, is: how many of these overly promoted false alarm hurricanes have to come and go before people get fed up with the evacuating and just ignore the orders? And then, like the story of the boy who cried wolf, what if the real thing comes along?
Senator David Vitter was interview, and he told about when he was a kid and Hurricane Betsy came through--a Category 4 storm that went right up the Mississippi River--worse in a lot of ways than Katrina, nobody even thought about evacuating.
I don't know what the solution is, but if I lived there, I know I'd be getting pretty pissed off about the damned government telling me what to do and not do. There is an element of politics here--the role of government, etc., but both parties seem equally gung ho about inserting themselves into people's lives in a nice do gooder way.
What do ya'all think should be the policy of dealing with hurricane threats?
Has anyone actually said this would be a good way to control hurricanes? Wouldn't surprise me....there was a guy that wanted to "build" harbors here in Alaska with nukes. Wacko's..
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