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I was watching "The Weather Channel"; they had a guy on a flooded road, broadcasting, and here came an old couple in an even older pickup truck, sloshing through the water. He stopped them to chat. The man, who was amiable enough, said he was just going home; that his home was dry. They just had to get past this part. The weatherman told him, "You realize the water's rising, right? So you're not worried that you'll get trapped up there?" The guy said, "Well, guess I'll just have to take my chances..." The woman just looked very ticked off at the question.
Well I can understand why the lady was upset.... THEY HAVE LIVED THERE MANY YEARS and are used to that.. THAT GUY DOESNT and he assumes he knows whats best for people there??
There was no mandatory evacuation in process. People did not "refuse" to leave their houses. This was not a hurricane, it was not even a tropical storm. It was a low pressure system that wouldn't move. It was 3-4 inches of rain per hour.
I have a neighbor a few streets away from me who has lived there for 31 years. Never in those 31 years has the water come as close to her house as it did Saturday. Luckily, it didn't get to her house.
There are entire neighborhoods in town here that are completely flooded. Again, there was no mandatory evacuation in place. There was not, in spite of what some might think, a whole lot of warning of this storm. This was not Katrina.
I guess you can really only go by what you've experienced your whole life when you have to make a decision like that, to stay or go.
There was no mandatory evacuation in process. People did not "refuse" to leave their houses. This was not a hurricane, it was not even a tropical storm. It was a low pressure system that wouldn't move. It was 3-4 inches of rain per hour.
I have a neighbor a few streets away from me who has lived there for 31 years. Never in those 31 years has the water come as close to her house as it did Saturday. Luckily, it didn't get to her house.
There are entire neighborhoods in town here that are completely flooded. Again, there was no mandatory evacuation in place. There was not, in spite of what some might think, a whole lot of warning of this storm. This was not Katrina.
I guess you can really only go by what you've experienced your whole life when you have to make a decision like that, to stay or go.
That Thursday the local news warned the Greater New Orleans area about the "possibility" of up to 10 inches of rain over the weekend. The problem was that there was no warning or even a mention of the "possibility" of that much rain on the North Shore and Greater Baton Rouge area, and no one could have predicted the 30+ inches that would fall in that short time.
There was no mandatory evacuation in process. People did not "refuse" to leave their houses. This was not a hurricane, it was not even a tropical storm. It was a low pressure system that wouldn't move. It was 3-4 inches of rain per hour.
I have a neighbor a few streets away from me who has lived there for 31 years. Never in those 31 years has the water come as close to her house as it did Saturday. Luckily, it didn't get to her house.
There are entire neighborhoods in town here that are completely flooded. Again, there was no mandatory evacuation in place. There was not, in spite of what some might think, a whole lot of warning of this storm. This was not Katrina.
I guess you can really only go by what you've experienced your whole life when you have to make a decision like that, to stay or go.
That's all well and good, but then you have people willfully driving over a flooded road ("don't drown, turn around") who keep on driving even when they're warned that they'll get trapped wherever they're going. And resent the advice. Given the number of rescues, it's hard to believe that at least some couldn't have been avoided with a little common sense, especially once the disaster was underway.
I don't even want to think about the number of dogs chained or fenced in the back yard that weren't freed and evacuated in time, either. Shudder!
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