To Evacuate or Know: Guess What?
Folks quickly assign blame for anything and everything. He/she/they did/didn’t do something that caused this/that to happen to me; it was bad juju, or the gods were angry. Rarely is something one’s own fault or simply Life. I’ve listened to reporters ask Abbott why Turner and Emmett didn’t call for mandatory evacuations, and although Abbott deflected the questions, making it apparent that at that time, he was not placing blame, he also didn’t actually address the issue. So, I shall. If city/county officials call for mandatory evacuations, all hell breaks loose on our roadways, lest we forget . Folks that aren’t even near the mandatory areas decide to get on the road – not a good idea. It’s one thing to evacuate from the threat of a direct hit from a hurricane, something else entirely for being on the dirty side of one. And we are expected to evacuate because of rain? Answer me this: Who the hell is going to pay for that? You and me – twice! The cost of the actual evacuation...