[najida]

The evacuation was hell from Savannah....
I was with 200+ severly disabled elderly...Most had to be carried onto the buses because they were wheelchair/bed bound.

On friggin SCHOOL buses no less.

We had 1 die before we even left the property, 3 die in transit, others had at least one, if not more die from the stress. And then you have all the home health-home bound that were dumped at the hospitals with out even a note so the (few) medical staff could tell what to do. Oh, yeah...the homeless and prisoners left town on AC'd transit buses. It was so barbaric....the most helpless, sick and fragile where the ones put under the greatest stress.

Yeah, we started loading at 10 am, left town at 5pm, got to our destination at 3am the next morning. Going 3 miles an with 100 thousand other folks trapped on the same highway. I had a friend calling me from Houston every hour on my cell phone to keep me sane. Being trapped in traffic, in the dark with strangers has become my greatest nightmare.

I don't work there anymore. I refuse to ever, EVER evacuate again. There can be a catagory 12 hurricane coming, I am sitting here in my home to die thankyouverymuch..... If I don't die, I have a gas, a well and grannies homemade wine in the closet.

[kayak]

What an experience! God bless you!

[NautiNurse]

There can be a catagory 12 hurricane coming, I am sitting here in my home to die thankyouverymuch..... If I don't die, I have a gas, a well and grannies homemade wine in the closet.

That's a pretty good description for the Key West crowd. It's way too much trouble to evacuate. Folks made their decision when they moved there.

[Lion in Winter]

I think America doesn't "do" evacuations al that well as as rule.

Sorry about the recent unpleasantness.