[dirtboy]

Remember that most of those urging you to do this or that have their own agendas, not yours at heart.

Yeah, sure, dude, I have an agenda. Bite me again. My 'agenda' is to try and get people to not listen to the likes of you, who says forecasters always over-forecast these storms when they under-forecast the surge from Katrina just 3 years ago, which contributed to the death toll. There is no place on this thread for deliberate ignorance like that. Now, of course, there is a high chance it won't be as bad as the worst-case scenario (that is why it is called such), and you'll show up in two days and cluck about how you were right all along. However, there are 1,800 dead from Katrina who took your point of view and paid with their lives when the worst-case scenario didn't even begin to describe how bad it would get.

[Romulus]

there are 1,800 dead from Katrina who took your point of view

You mean they evacuated? How did they die?

[topher]

In 1969, people did not evacuate before Hurricane Camille made landfall in Mississippi. From what I remember, anything along the beach at landfall was literally wiped out for about 200 feet (or maybe yards) inland.

Many people who stayed they never found a trace of -- just wasted out to sea as shark food or fish food.

Hurricane Camille would be considered a Category 5 storm.

It had sustained winds (not gusts) of 200 mph.

That was one reason there was nothing left on the beach front.

I imagine the other was the storm surge (which they probably did not know how to predict then).

People were told they must evacuate...