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Ridecamp Guest wrote:

> Please Reply to: Lauretta tikitiki69@xxxxxxxxxxx or ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> I was watching the news just now, and Galveston and New Orleans 
> (again) are under mandatory evacuation.  After all that occurred
> with Katrina, I am hearing that some citizens are refusing to go.
> I hope they reconsider.  To keep this endurance related, I hope
> any endurance folks in the path of this new storm (now at Cat 4)
> are mercifully passed by............
>
> Lauretta and Shaba
>
>  
There are always some folks that refuse to go. One of the  reasons  many 
times is they can't take thier pets to shelters with them or on public 
transportation to get out and they refuse to leave their pets to fend 
for themselves. That's a real two edges sword for emergency planners and 
it does amount to a significant number. The other issue planners have 
with evacuations is the "cry wolf syndrome." After two close calls over 
the past four years (Charlie the last one last year) where St. Pete, FL 
ordered evacuation and the hurricane didn't come anywhere near - some 
people will ignore the next one. Charlie was the storm (Cat 4) where the 
order was for all people in the Tampa/St. Pete/Clearwater area to 
evacuate to Orlando to have the storm trun long before it hit Tampa and 
take a direct hit on Orlando as a still Cat 3 storm. In essence the 
directed people from safety into harms way. On the other hand it takes 
48 hours to evacuate St. Pete so they have to start well in advance of 
when the storm is there. Then there is the issue of ordering an 
evacuation - and finding out there is not enough gas in the gas stations 
to support that number of people leaving. That happened last year in FL 
for Francis. Being an emergency planner has got to a thankless job - one 
were an ulcer is probably handed when you take the job interview.

Bottom line - ordered evacuation or not a person does not have to leave 
his home just because the Government order them to and that's actually a 
good thing. However, good judgement should be used.

Truman

--

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite 
of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."    Niels Bohr 
-- Nobel Laureate, Physics




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