Re: Rita

I wondered as I watched the TV news about the gridlock of people evacuating,
why didn't they open both sides of the highway to outgoing traffic? It
seems that would have moved things along much quicker. I believe that's
what they do when the Florida Keys and the Outer Banks are evacuated.

Bambi C.
"Anne Vasquez" <annevasquez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> If they were in Houston, chances are there was no damage at all to the
> home they were evacuated from. However, at the time people were
> evacuated, we were looking down the nose of a cat 5 storm, and to stay put
> would have been nuts, especially for infirm and disabled people who would
> be likely to need medical attention. It could so easily have been a
> replay of that nursing home in Louisiana! When we got home (24 hours
> ahead of what was considered safe; we drove through the storm), there was
> a message on my voice mail from the emergency alert services saying that
> the town was to have been evacuated by this time (it came in about 18
> hours before we got home), including all emergency personnel, and if we
> needed emergency help, not to bother calling police, fire or ambulance,
> they were gone, we were on our own and God bless. What happened to those
> people was terribly tragic, but I don't think the people who evacuated
> them or decided to evacuate them can be held responsible. They were doing
> what we were all told was absolutely the safest and most sensible thing to
> do.
>
> No-one can predict the landfall of these storms accurately enough far
> enough in advance for mass evacuations of exactly the right places. I
> really believe they did the best they could with the knowledge they had,
> and the messes that ensued with gridlock and lack of gas are things that
> no-one anticipated due to lack of experience with this sort of situation.
> Maybe they should have realized, but hindsight is 20/20. If this ever
> happens again, I would expect to see better planning in that respect, now
> that our officials have had to deal with an evacuation of this magnitude.
>
> Anne
>
>
> Jeannie Wilson wrote:
>>
>>
>> I haven't seen any of the coverage of the home where they were evacuated
>> from, so I didn't know that particular home suffered minimal or no
>> damage, nothing that would have resulted in the loss of those lives. I
>> haven't watched television yet today.


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