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Are there really 22,000 people still in Galveston, as this article implies?
Why? With Katrina, a large part of the problem was that many people in New Orleans actually couldn't get out; they didn't have cars, and the system to get them evacuated wasn't working, and officials on all levels of government were caught flat-footed by the nature of the disaster even though something like it had been predicted long in advance. Is that the case here, or are these individuals just not getting it?
Part of the blame may lie with the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale; Masters has been stressing that the potential for destruction from Ike's storm surge far exceeds what people expect from a Category 2 storm.
I don't think many people currently realize the magnitude of what's about to go down.
Update: On Making Light, Doctor Science suggests that not all these people may be on the actual island. If most of them aren't then it's just bad journalism.
...I don't know, this story kind of implies they're on the island too.
Why? With Katrina, a large part of the problem was that many people in New Orleans actually couldn't get out; they didn't have cars, and the system to get them evacuated wasn't working, and officials on all levels of government were caught flat-footed by the nature of the disaster even though something like it had been predicted long in advance. Is that the case here, or are these individuals just not getting it?
Part of the blame may lie with the Saffir-Simpson hurricane scale; Masters has been stressing that the potential for destruction from Ike's storm surge far exceeds what people expect from a Category 2 storm.
I don't think many people currently realize the magnitude of what's about to go down.
Update: On Making Light, Doctor Science suggests that not all these people may be on the actual island. If most of them aren't then it's just bad journalism.
...I don't know, this story kind of implies they're on the island too.