I don’t understand your hostility.
Mrs. Thomas was not responsible for the hurricane. Those communities, and much of the peninsula itself, may well have been swept to sea by a terrible act of nature. There’s nothing anyone could have done to stop it.
Blaming “Mrs. Thomas” for that is like blaming George Bush for Katrina. Ridiculous.
Let’s put our energies, even the hostile ones, into helping clean up what’s left and comfort those affected.
I will be glad to tell you why Mrs. Thomas deserves our ire! She did not order any evacuations of the Island until 5:00pm Thursday...even though she had been warned to do so the day before. When she did finally order one, it was only for the western end of Island.
Now, in her defense, if you need a politician to tell you when to go, you are probably a hopeless fool anyway.
I have watched enough of her pressers to say with certainty that she is a fool and/or a callous and calculating politician of the worse kind.
The morning the storm was approaching, she was asked about the NWS issuing the ‘death if you stay’ warning and she poopooed it and said she did not believe in scaring ‘her citizens’...(eye roll).
When asked yesterday about the fate of the people on the west end, her response was only that they were 47% of ‘her’ tax base!!
Not sure why we should be giving her anything BUT our hostility at this point.