When the press is pushing ‘massive’ evacuations of about 100 people from a trailer park, in the Flood Plain, where a broken berm has allowed flooding, which hasn’t crested their trailer floors, but is hip deep in the parking lot,...I do feel compassion for my fellow man, but I also discern between others who experience Class 2-5 hurricanes every 1-3 years with far more at risk.
In the spirit of Sam Kinison,...You are a mobile people, subject to daily commutes and annual moves. If you don’t want to be flooded out,...then move your trailer out of the FLOOD PLAIN!
The Press is prone to hyper-ventilating.
For Ivan (Cat 5 that went into Miss the year before Katrina), I knew that New Orleans was ok (was evacuated to Monroe) because all the Press could show on TV was a flooding public restroom that was on the water side of the Levee.
For Andrew, the Press reported LaPlace as being ‘wiped out’. Sure enough, there were about 45 homes in LaPlace/Reserve that had been wiped out by a tornado. But once you got past the tornado area, there was minimal damage. My house about 5 miles away was not even damaged.
For Katrina - no damage.
But for Isaac - we flooded. So after all these years of living on the Gulf Coast, mother nature finally spanked me.
Now my daughter got flooded out by Katrina and Isaac. I have made a mental note to not be anywhere near her on the seventh anniversary of Isaac and the fourteenth anniversary of Katrina.