That said, NO has been playing russian roulette for decades and this time the bullet was chambered. I am sickened by the death and destruction that overwhelmed my neighbors to the south in the blink of an eye.
What we have here is a failure to communicate. You still miss the point. I'll try again. It is human nature is to stop paying attention to warnings and dire predictions when they're proven false 99 times out of a hundred. On the hundredth time when they're right no one listens any more. Anyone with a brain could have seen from the satellite pictures that this was a huge storm, but when the government tells you to evacuate for every storm, and for years the evacuations have proved unnecessary, people just stop listening. My point is that you save the dire warnings for the severe storms so that people will listen.
The conservative position is always to err on the side of public safety.
Even if true the law of unintended consequences says that people are going to get used to the warning and ignore them if there are too many of them. Plus NO was a disaster waiting to happen. Every time I flew into that place and the plane went over the lake and I saw the roofs of the houses lower than the level of the lake I thought that is just crazy.
The conservative position is always to err on the side of public safety.