If somebody living within reach of a Cat-5 storm doesn't have enough money to endure a three day road trip they're living in denial.
Near misses are a part of living on the coast, just like avalanches are a part of living in the mountains and tornadoes are a part of living on the plains.
That's simple reality.
A choice to live in a given reality, accompanied accompanied by a belief in any other reality than that which actually exists, leads directly to a rude awakening.
That's simple math.
If blowigngoff steam after a rough couple of days helps out somehow, fine, knock yourself out.
If you're looking for some kind of accountability tough, the mirror is the place to start.
Nobody used you. I told people to leave because the storm was pointed right down your throats. I spent three or four days sweating the fate of a huge American city because it really was that close. Don't take my word for it, go back and look up the posts. The phrase your are looking for is "balanced on a razor's edge". It's here, more than once.
It was the smart move. I have nothing to gain or lose, whether you stay or go, really whether you live or die. Getting out was the smart move.
it will be the next time too.
And when the next time comes, you and your fellow residents will either have learned from this time around, and have the money saved up to cover a...rainy day...or we'll see you standing by the flooded Astrodome, shooting at the rescue choppers because you haven't had any water in three days.
Your call.
Make it and live with it.
You and me both, jeffers, sweating it out...with lots of reason...if the weather system hadn't pulled east, we'd be seeing the horrors of what a strong storm would have done to Kemah and Bacliff and Clear Lake and Galveston and so on. The pics we're seeing from the Louisiana coast about flooding would be Texas pics.
When it was time to evacuate, there was no way to be sure where it was going to hit. If they had waited, it would have been too late to evacuate.
My brother who evacuated, says they need to evacuate a week early, not just 3 days.
Brillant post.
Living by the sea is no big deal if you got half a brain. Building subsidized housing is a foolish thing to do. If you can't affort you own home how can you be expected to have the sense to get out of the way of a hurricane.