Stay or Go?
They say that 60% of the people who were told to evacuate in advance of the hurricane decided to stay right where they were.
Hopefully they all did okay, but the photos don't seem to bear that out. It's horrifying to hear about freeways flooded and people on the roof of their homes, waiting to be rescued.
Yet the sheriff in one of the towns told those who wanted to stay that he hoped they'd put their social security numbers on their arms so they could be easily identified.
I don't think it'd be much of a call around here. As much as we enjoy our home, we'd most certainly pack up the car and head for higher ground.
I can't imagine how scary it must be to see the news reports and know that your home is gonna get filled with water. Everything that you've worked for gone, and the flood protection regulation just recently stripped under an executive order...
...so insurance companies don't have to pay out.
We've never had such an emergency here.
You can stay in your home when there's a snowstorm coming...
...and we've had plenty of practice with those.
Yet not knowing if your roof is going to end up in your neighbors yard is a special kind of worry. And if the power goes off...
...watch out!
My kids don't do the no power thing.
We lost power here during a summer freak incident, and no games, no television and no air conditioning was big trouble.
We did have one storm where the power was off for a few days. My wife and kids headed for North Collins and left me alone with the generator.
I had pasta, steak and beer each night while they were gone.
The photos of the devastation in Texas is mind-boggling. The shots of the storm making landfall was downright scary.
People will really suffer for years and years and years.
What's nasty about a coming storm is that people seem to want to find someone to blame for it. The president always seems to get a lot of heat.
Because they can't win. The flood protection deregulation is going to get a lot of note soon and it's inconceivable that lives will be destroyed over money.
But they will.
When the storm hits the people who stayed home to brave it are considered to be morons by the people who live thousands of miles away.
Sometimes it's not so simple.
I can see people who have stayed in one home forever, being afraid to leave.
And perhaps financial constraints stop people from running for it.
Yet these days in the world of everyone is an idiot if they disagree with how you'd do it...
...sympathy is in short supply.
One woman posted that she had to stay because she worked at a hospital in the area and was on call.
She was scared and posted her story to talk to others about what she was experiencing.
"You're an idiot," the first guy wrote. "I hope your walls collapse. Why would anyone sit through a hurricane because of a stupid job?"
A number of people jumped to her defense, but the damage was done.
We would go.
At least my wife and kids would.
They'd probably leave me here to wait it out.
Hope they all recover quickly.
Hard to imagine.
Hopefully they all did okay, but the photos don't seem to bear that out. It's horrifying to hear about freeways flooded and people on the roof of their homes, waiting to be rescued.
Yet the sheriff in one of the towns told those who wanted to stay that he hoped they'd put their social security numbers on their arms so they could be easily identified.
I don't think it'd be much of a call around here. As much as we enjoy our home, we'd most certainly pack up the car and head for higher ground.
I can't imagine how scary it must be to see the news reports and know that your home is gonna get filled with water. Everything that you've worked for gone, and the flood protection regulation just recently stripped under an executive order...
...so insurance companies don't have to pay out.
We've never had such an emergency here.
You can stay in your home when there's a snowstorm coming...
...and we've had plenty of practice with those.
Yet not knowing if your roof is going to end up in your neighbors yard is a special kind of worry. And if the power goes off...
...watch out!
My kids don't do the no power thing.
We lost power here during a summer freak incident, and no games, no television and no air conditioning was big trouble.
We did have one storm where the power was off for a few days. My wife and kids headed for North Collins and left me alone with the generator.
I had pasta, steak and beer each night while they were gone.
The photos of the devastation in Texas is mind-boggling. The shots of the storm making landfall was downright scary.
People will really suffer for years and years and years.
What's nasty about a coming storm is that people seem to want to find someone to blame for it. The president always seems to get a lot of heat.
Because they can't win. The flood protection deregulation is going to get a lot of note soon and it's inconceivable that lives will be destroyed over money.
But they will.
When the storm hits the people who stayed home to brave it are considered to be morons by the people who live thousands of miles away.
Sometimes it's not so simple.
I can see people who have stayed in one home forever, being afraid to leave.
And perhaps financial constraints stop people from running for it.
Yet these days in the world of everyone is an idiot if they disagree with how you'd do it...
...sympathy is in short supply.
One woman posted that she had to stay because she worked at a hospital in the area and was on call.
She was scared and posted her story to talk to others about what she was experiencing.
"You're an idiot," the first guy wrote. "I hope your walls collapse. Why would anyone sit through a hurricane because of a stupid job?"
A number of people jumped to her defense, but the damage was done.
We would go.
At least my wife and kids would.
They'd probably leave me here to wait it out.
Hope they all recover quickly.
Hard to imagine.
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