Lots of people did choose to say. It's inevitable. Not to say that the quote in question didn't come from a major ass-hat, but yeah, there're always some who stay. There're always some hold-outs when hurricanes slam through Outer Banks, NC, which is exposed on the sea and everything's built on stilts if it's within 5 blocks of the beach, and that's most of every single town on the sandbank.
Frankly, it's not a bad risk in general-- Hurricanes just don't kill that many people or destroy that many houses, as a percentage. And if you're just gambling on 3-5 feet of flooding, against the remote possibility of a Galveston 1900/NO 1927/NO 1965-scale event, well, it pays off 34 out of every 35 years.
And, ya know, the people who didn't choose to stay aren't the Feds' problem, so you just put those dainty gloves away. That's definitely a city, parish and, once they're out of town, state issue.
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Date: 2005-09-03 08:38 pm (UTC)Frankly, it's not a bad risk in general-- Hurricanes just don't kill that many people or destroy that many houses, as a percentage. And if you're just gambling on 3-5 feet of flooding, against the remote possibility of a Galveston 1900/NO 1927/NO 1965-scale event, well, it pays off 34 out of every 35 years.
And, ya know, the people who didn't choose to stay aren't the Feds' problem, so you just put those dainty gloves away. That's definitely a city, parish and, once they're out of town, state issue.