90,000 ignored evacuation orders.

[RobMD]

Elderly man called channel 11 in galveston, exclaimed that he could not be rescued and that his house is only capable of having 16 feet surge. When asked what he's gonna do when there is a 25 foot surge, he said, 'guess i'll see you on the flip side.'

Multiply this attitude by 90,000, and you get 90,000 proud, fearless storm warriors.

In other words, are they ****in' nuts?

 

[Buckeye Oliver collector]

Will be interesting to see what happens with it. Those able to get out of there would be making a common sense decision in doing so.

 

[msb]

I wonder who counted them to say there were 90,000 left to ride out the storm ?

 

[Vacherie]

They know the normal population and how many evacuated. Then they use math to determine how many didn't evacuate..

 

[Walt Davies]

I have been watching Fox news and its a lot less than that but still to many.
Walt

 

[bigdraft]

I'm sorry, but the way I see it...if they dont wanna leave their homes, thats their business. WHO is the government to tell me I HAVE to leave my house and possessions behind??? It's my stuff and my house....IF I choose to stay, its my business. End of story. If things dont work out right and something bad happens...my fault...I'll take my lumps and move on........the government has wayyyyy to much say in what we do




Kevin

 

[Anonymous-0]

Because the same people will be screaming for the government to come save them when their cable quits and their easy chair is sitting in a foot of water. Then the first responders risk their lives to save their worthless arse.

 

[john in la]

I have been threw and or around many manditory evacuations in my life and I have NEVER seen one case where people were forced to leave or draged out kicking and screaming.

So if you choose to stay that is your choice.

The problem comes in when anyone that chooses to stay finds out they made a bad choice and what to be rescued risking other peoples lives because of their stupity.

 

[Vacherie]

Not any more nuts than some one that lives on an earthquake fault, tornado alley, Florida coast, North Carolina coast, New York City or north of I-30.

 

[bigdraft]

yeah....I definately see where your coming from. Thats when the government says to hell with ya, it was your decision to stay when we told ya to go....so, fend for yourself. I know, I know, I know......too many softies these days, that would never fly............




kevin

 

[Anonymous-0]

Hard to move on if your dead! Dave

 

[tlak]

They could just go stand next to the news person on the beach. One was showing an awning blowing around. What do you expect, it's like a fn aluminum lawn chair.
Never heard terms like used for this storm, "Monster Storm"- it's raining in Houston-like that doesn't happen every day of the week.
"Tropical Force Winds In Dallas"- Use to be the remants of Hurricane whatever.
And of course the gas prices. I guess when you have to produce a product 24/7, you engineer everything to only work on nice summer days with a slight breeze.

 

[Traditional Farmer]

Thats what makes this country great,A person can be just as stupid as they want to be.

 

[tlak]

Hurricane coverage during Brit Humes time slot, 3:58 CST, the anchor lady for the weather alert stopped the weather lady from telling how minor this hurricane actually is, and proceeded to tell her how bad the storm is.

 

[Anonymous-0]

It's not a bad idea to stay but only if they have a sturdy old tractor to hang onto and they can get parts for it from YTMAG.

 

[ELD]

LOL!

Alot of folks sure do exercise that right!

 

[Mike M]

What gets me is as soon as an evacuation order goes out reporters swarm in ?

If you want to stay put in your own house that is your right,but don't come crying to me to bail you out ! All of us are going to be paying $$$ for this for years to come.

 

[MarkB_MI]

I lived on a barrier island in North Carolina for many years. A lot of the old timers would refuse to evacuate; I guess they figured if they weren't going to have anything to come back to, they would just as soon perish as evacuate.

 

[Alex.C]

I'm in Katy which is 30miles out west of Houston. We got a sayin' 'bout those people: There ether from califonia or just plain stupid. most that were in a mandatory evac. zone were just that calies. most every body that left were the smart ones(Darwin at work as usuall.) Most of the old timers though took no chances and left when it was voluntary. The only time you don't leave is when when you are not in the storm surge zone.

 

[Eric SEI]

All of us live with some risk. I live in one of those tornado alleys, when we hear that a tornado is on the ground and heading our way, we head for shelter.

Ignoring warnings is not smart.

 

[dcarp]

The real number is not that high. A lot of people planned to leave Friday morning but when they got up the high tide and incoming surge 18 hours before landfall had cut off the escape routes.
Many of those had been caught in the Rita evac. when a lot of people were on the roads for 20+ hours, ran out of fuel, water and were just stuck on the road.

 

[dcarp]

I stand corrected on the number. The estimated number is 140,000 over FOUR counties, not just the City of Galveston which is mainly what I was looking at.

 

[WantACaseLASomeday]

bigdraft is right. How did we get to the sad point in America where the civil authorites can tell property owners they must leave or, worse, cannot return to their property after a storm? As a retired policeman I tend to like the cops - but enough is enough and if we have a tornado here and some cop tries to keep me out of my property he will get hurt or I will - but someone will, for sure.

The governor of Texas was right today when he said people need to understand that 'the first 72 hours is on you' - meaning no one should expect any kind of emergency service, rescue, or relief for the first 72 hours.

Take care of yourself and depend on no one except neighbors if you are lucky enough to have good ones.